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Eternal Escape: Old Believers as Wanderers Between Capitalism, Communism, and the Apocalypse

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Eternal Escape: Old Believers as Wanderers Between Capitalism, Communism, and the Apocalypse
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This study centers on the social history of the radical religious community of Old Believers known as the Wanderers. Like many other Old Believers, they believed that the church reforms of the 17th century marked the beginning of the reign of the Antichrist. Rejecting the corrupt world, the Wanderers preached extreme asceticism—the renunciation of property, marriage, and any contact with the state. However, despite their apocalyptic views, the Wanderers unexpectedly thrived under the late imperial and early Soviet regimes. Using three key figures from this religious community as examples, Igor Kuziner demonstrates how the millenarians adapted to rapid modernization—from imperial capitalism to the Bolshevik Revolution and Stalin's terror. Their remarkable ability to integrate into broader social spaces challenges conventional notions of radical religious groups, revealing both the adaptability of marginalized communities and the unexpected flexibility of modernizing political regimes.

The author of the book, Igor Kuziner, is a candidate of historical sciences, PhD in History, associate professor of the Department of History, and junior research fellow at the Center for Historical Research at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg).
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