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The Doukhobor Centenary in
Canada:
a multi-disciplinary perspective
on their unity and diversity
Proceedings of an international
conference
held at the
University of Ottawa
22-24 October 1999
Edited by
Andrew Donskov
John Woodsworth
Chad Gaffield
xvi + 365 pp.
Published by the
Slavic Research Group and
the Institute of Canadian Studies
at the University of Ottawa
2000
ISBN 0-88927-276-X
FOR THREE DAYS in late October 1999 scholars from Russia, America, Britain and Canada, including a number of Canadian Doukhobors, met at the University of Ottawa to discuss various aspects of the Doukhobors' first hundred years in their new homeland: the events leading up to their emigration in the winter and spring of 1899, the contribution to their cause of the part of Leo Tolstoy and his followers, as well as their language, literature and culture. On the second night of the conference the public was invited to attend an OPEN FORUM on the topic: Doukhobors at the threshold of the twenty-first century, exploring the prospects for this group's second century in Canada.
The conference began with two keynote addresses given by: Dr Svetlana Inikova, an ethnographer with the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, and Doukhobor historian Eli A. Popoff from British Columbia. The remaining papers in this volume were contributed by six scholars from abroad along with fifteen host-country participants.
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C O N T E N T S
THE EDITORS
Foreword
ROBERT MAJOR
Mot d'acceuil / Welcome
FRIDAY EVENING
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Svetlana A. Inikova (Moscow)
Spiritual origins and the beginnings
of Doukhobor history
Eli A. Popoff (Grand
Forks, B.C.)
The Doukhobors: the ëenigmaí
and the reality
SATURDAY MORNING
TWO HOMELANDS: AN OVERVIEW
J.L. Black (Ottawa)
Imperial Russia at the turn
of the twentieth century: volatile cross-currentsÖ
Nicholas B. Breyfogle (Columbus,
Ohio, USA)
Rethinking the origins of the
Doukhobor arms-burning 1886-1893
Joshua A. Sanborn (Easton,
Pennsylvania, USA)
Non-violent protest and the
Russian state: the Doukhobors in 1895 and 1937
Cornelius Jaenen (Ottawa)
The Doukhobor first perceived
as ëthe otherí
James Kolesnikoff (Hamilton,
Ont.)
Understanding violent behaviour:
the ëSons of Freedomí case
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
THE ROLE OF TOLSTOY AND HIS
FOLLOWERS
Michael J. de K. Holman (Leeds,
UK)
British Tolstoyans, The New
Order and the Doukhobors in the late 1890sÖ
Galina Alekseeva (Yasnaya
Polyana)
James Mavor and the Doukhobors
Lidia Gromova (Moscow)
The idea of universal brotherhood
and unity: Lev Tolstoy and Peter Verigin
Arkadi Klioutchanski (Toronto)
LíImmigration des Doukhobors
: une fenêtre sur le Canada en rétrospective
SATURDAY EVENING ó OPEN FORUM
DOUKHOBORS AT THE THRESHOLD
OF THE 21st CENTURY
George Bolotenko (Ottawa)
The Recovery of Doukhobor recordsÖ
and their historical significance
Charles Frantz (Buffalo,
New York, USA)
Revolution, conformity or reform?
Some Doukhobor options in the next century
Nina Olson (Burnaby,
B.C.)
ëNo foe, no showí: multiculturalism,
the gentle assimilator
Summaries of additional OPEN
FORUM presentations
SUNDAY MORNING
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
Nicole Bourbonnais (Ottawa)
Les Doukhobors de Gabrielle
Roy
Günter Schaarschmidt
(Victoria, B.C.)
Doukhobor Russian in the mosaic
of languages of British Columbia
Myler Wilkinson (Castlegar,
B.C.)
One voice: a Doukhobor poet
Jack McIntosh (Vancouver)
Maintaining community among
a small, dispersed peopleÖ
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
CULTURE AND THE DOUKHOBORS
Koozma J. Tarasoff (Ottawa)
Doukhobor pioneers of the century
John W. Friesen (Calgary)
The Genius of Doukhobor communalism:
contrasts and comparisons
Julie Rak (Edmonton)
Vechnaja pamjatí in the diaspora:
Community Doukhobor autobiography
Shirley Perry (West
Vancouver, B.C.)
The Importance of song in Doukhobor
life
Larry A. Ewashen (Castlegar,
B.C.)
The Changing faces of Doukhobor
culture
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