The importance of religion in the Soviet rural community
essay 1971 Dunn, Ethel

RussiansEurope > Eastern Europe
Despite decades of hostile communist policies and campaigns aimed at eradicating the vestiges of the Russian Orthodox Church, religion continued to play important roles in the lives of farming households and rural communities. The author underscores ...

The peasants of central Russia
Book 1988 Dunn, Stephen Porter & Dunn, Ethel

RussiansEurope > Eastern Europe
This book describes the post-revolutionary Soviet policies and processes that transformed the Central Russian countryside from traditional peasant to modern industrial agriculture. The discussion focuses on empirical comparison of the economic condit...

The great Russian peasant
article 1963 Dunn, Stephen Porter & Dunn, Ethel

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Drawing on data collected by Russian ethnographers, the authors examine change and continuity in aspects of traditional Russian culture and society. They find significant change in three areas: increased separation of religion and state (secularizati...