Paul Werth
Inorodtsy on Obrusenie: Religious Conversion, Indigenous Clergy, and the Politics of Assimilation in Late-Imperial Russia
2/2000
This essay was presented at the seminar “Conversion: Sacred and Profane” at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center For Historical Studies at Princeton University (February, 2000); and at the VI ICCEES World Congress in Tampere, Finland (July, 2000). I thank the participants of those fora, as well as Nicholas Breyfogle, Charles Steinwedel, Andrew Bell, and Valerie Kivelson, for their stimulating questions and insights. The archives cited in this article are abbreviated as follows: Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Istoricheskii Arkhiv, St. Petersburg (RGIA); Natsional'nyi Arkhiv Respubliki Tatarstan, Kazan (NART); Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Kirovskoi Oblasti, Kirov (GAKO).