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TWO POWERFUL INSTITUTIONS GUARD THE FAITH BEHIND THE OLD IRON CURTAIN: PATRIARCH AND PAPACY KEEP THE FAITH BUT WITH RATHER DIFFERENT CONSEQUENCES

Part I. Historiography and sources: Trends in studying the history of Old Belief among Russian scholars / Nikolai N. Pokrovskii -- Past and current interpretations of Old Belief / Robert O. Crummey -- Sources, bibliography, and historiography of Old Belief during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: system and structure / Edward Kasinec and Irina V. Pozdeeva ; Part II. Old Belief's place in Russian social and economic history: The silver age of Russia's Old Belief, 1905-17 / Irina V. Pozdeeva -- The work ethic of Russian Old Believers and spiritual Christians / Aleksandr I. Klibanov -- Old Belief and worldly performance: socioeconomic and sociocultural aspects of the Raskol in early industrial Russia / Manfred Hildermeier -- Some observations on the social history of Old Belief during the seventeenth century / Georg B. Michels -- Part III. Old belief's relations with Orthodox church and state: Peasant antimonarchism and uprisings in Siberia during the eighteenth century / Natal'ia S. Gur'ianova -- Old Belief under surveillance during the reign of Alexander I / Robert L. Nichols -- Priestly old belief in the early twentieth century: the conversion of archbishop Nikola (Pozdnev) of Saratov and the creation of a new Old Believer hierarchy / J. Eugene Clay -- Part IV. Old believer culture: Text of oOd Belief's founding fathers: their archival transmission and preservation / Natal'ia S. Demkova -- Deacon Aleksandr in search of the 'Genuine truth of god' / Andrei I. Pliguzov -- The Old Believer press, 1905-17 / Roy R. Robson -- Russian Old Believers in the mirror of comparative history / Donald W. Treadgold

For nearly two hundred years the history of the Raskol, the Russian Church schism of the seventeenth century, was a secret one. To be sure, the Old Believers wrote, and in enormous quantities, but they wrote—by hand—secret manuscripts, copied secretly and circulated secretly. And, except for official condemnations of schismatic teachings and the publication of laws directed against the raskol'niki, more or less serious historical investigation started only in the last years of the reign of Emperor Nicholas I and was confined to printed but highly restricted memoranda passed around in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Even the nature and the chronology of early Raskol historiography raise questions about the nature of the schism. Why was the history of the Raskol secret for such a long time? Why were the Old Believers persecuted by the government for so long? Was it all, as the government maintained, because they were ignorant, illiterate, superstitious, fanatical, and disobedient toward the Church?