'… offers a useful insight into the Old Believer and Sectarian mentalities, and includes some engaging anecdotes of peasant popular culture.' European History Quarterly

• Introduction; 1. The traditional worldview; 2. The old believers: modernization as apocalypse; 3. The sectarians: dualism and secret history; 4. Folk eschatology; 5. The assassination of Alexander II and folk tsarism; 6. Cholera and famine: the demonization of the nobility; 7. The Japanese war: peasant Russia and the wider world; 8. 1905: revolution or reaction?: 9. The great war and the crisis of the traditional culture; Epilogue; Bibliography.

'… offers a useful insight into the Old Believer and Sectarian mentalities, and includes some engaging anecdotes of peasant popular culture.' European History Quarterly

• Introduction; 1. The traditional worldview; 2. The old believers: modernization as apocalypse; 3. The sectarians: dualism and secret history; 4. Folk eschatology; 5. The assassination of Alexander II and folk tsarism; 6. Cholera and famine: the demonization of the nobility; 7. The Japanese war: peasant Russia and the wider world; 8. 1905: revolution or reaction?: 9. The great war and the crisis of the traditional culture; Epilogue; Bibliography.

'… offers a useful insight into the Old Believer and Sectarian mentalities, and includes some engaging anecdotes of peasant popular culture.' European History Quarterly

• Introduction; 1. The traditional worldview; 2. The old believers: modernization as apocalypse; 3. The sectarians: dualism and secret history; 4. Folk eschatology; 5. The assassination of Alexander II and folk tsarism; 6. Cholera and famine: the demonization of the nobility; 7. The Japanese war: peasant Russia and the wider world; 8. 1905: revolution or reaction?: 9. The great war and the crisis of the traditional culture; Epilogue; Bibliography.