6 X 9 inches, 236 pages More about this item: Slavic Research
Group Russian Roots and Canadian Wings Russian Archival
Documents on the Doukhobor Emigration Translated, compiled, and
annotated by John Woodsworth Foreword by Vladimir Tolstoy
Canada-Russia Series, No. 1 General editors of Canada-Russia
Series are J.L Black & Andrew Donskov IT ALL STARTED THREE
HUNDRED YEARS AGO with a desire to worship God in freedom of
conscience without the trappings of centuries-old organised
religion, to live a simple peasant life of honest toil without
undue control by an authoritarian state, and above all to live
one's life without being forced to take or even harm another's.
Just serving in the army and being made to carry a lethal weapon
was, to the Doukhobors, a direct violation of the Christian
teaching of non-violence. To the Russian authorities, on the
other hand, Doukhoborism was a direct violation of the practices
they had relied upon for centuries, especially when its
sectarians began to be influenced by the free-