At the Margins of Orthodoxy : Mission, Governance, and Confessional Politics in Russia's Volga-Kama Region, 1827-1905 / by Werth, Paul W.

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Village mothers : three generations of change in Russia and Tataria / by Ransel, David L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Child welfare before the Revolution -- Soviet efforts to transform village mothering -- Courtship and marriage -- Fertility choices -- Giving birth -- Baptism and equivalent Muslim rites -- Coping with infant death -- Child care -- Conclusion. …”
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The old faith and the Russian land : a historical ethnography of ethics in the Urals / by Rogers, Douglas, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…-- Society, culture, and the churching of Sepych -- Separating post-Soviet worlds? : priestly baptisms and priestless funerals.…”
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In the kingdom of ice : the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette / by Sides, Hampton

Table of Contents: “…The company of the USS Jeannette -- Baptism by ice -- A great blank space. A shocking Sabbath carnival of death ; Ne plus ultra ; The Lord of Creation ; For you I will dare anything ; Gateways to the Pole -- The national genius. …”

Holy Rus' : the rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia / by Burgess, John P., 1954-

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Twenty Years in a Siberian Gulag : Memoir of a Political Prisoner at Kolyma / by Bolotov, Leonid Petrovich, 1906-1987

Table of Contents: “…Fifteen-The Train: Leningrad to Vladivostok -- Sixteen-Vladivostok Transit Camp -- Seventeen-Behind Barbed Wire -- Eighteen-Kulu -- Part II: My Stay and Work in Kolyma -- Nineteen-From Magadan to the Taiga -- Twenty-The New Power -- Twenty-One-Baptism of Fire -- Twenty-Two-Panning Season -- Twenty-Three-Music While We Worked -- Twenty-Four-My Father's Letter -- Twenty-Five-My Search for Firewood -- Twenty-Six-My Broken Leg -- Twenty-Seven-My New Friends -- Twenty-Eight-The Competition -- Twenty-Nine-World War II in the Gold Mine -- Thirty-The ­Cave-In -- Thirty-One-The Unexpected Meetings…”
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