A01=Susan Wiley Hardwick
Author_Susan Wiley Hardwick
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226316109
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 1 x 1mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1993
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1987, when victims of religious persecution were finally allowed to leave Russia, a flood of immigrants landed on the Pacific shores of North America. By the end of 1992, over 200,000 Jews and Christians had resettled in a land where they had only recently been considered "the enemy". "Russian Refuge" is a comprehensive account of the Russian immigrant experience in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and British Columbia since the first settlements over two hundred years ago. Susan Hardwick focuses on six little-studied Christian groups - Baptists, Pentecostals, Molokans, Doukhobors, Old Believers, and Orthodox believers - to study the role of religion in their decisions to emigrate and in their adjustment to American culture. The book also has narratives from 260 personal interviews.
