Baptist Beginnings in Russia and Ukraine, Heather J. Coleman

[Baptist Beginnings in Russia and Ukraine, Heather J. Coleman. Книга исследует возникновение баптистских общин в России и Украине в 1860-1870-х годах, их взаимодействие в трёх регионах и формирование идентичности как баптистов. Автор анализиру] Baptist Beginnings in Russia and Ukraine Heather J. Coleman Heather J Coleman holds the Canada Research Chair in Imperial Russian History at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada In the 1860s and 1870s, religious communities of Russians and Ukrainians that would later identify themselves as Baptists first arose in unrelated strains in three widely separated regions of the Russian Empire. T he history of the first decades of the Russian Baptists is the story of groups in Transcaucasia, Ukraine, and St. Petersburg, gradually finding one anoth…

[Baptist Beginnings in Russia and Ukraine, Heather J. Coleman. Книга исследует возникновение баптистских общин в России и Украине в 1860-1870-х годах, их взаимодействие в трёх регионах и формирование идентичности как баптистов. Автор анализиру] Baptist Beginnings in Russia and Ukraine 25 aspirations or was it a completely foreign import? Thus, in his excellent recent history of Russian Baptists from 1867 to 1917, S. N. Savinskii repeat- edly emphasized to his fellow believers the "originality" [samobytnosf] of their movement and its suitability for Russians. "It is very significant," he wrote, "that congregations of Lutherans, Reformers, or Mennonites did not arise among Ukrainians. Before the evangelical awakening, the Ukrainians always had a negative attitude towards everything that cam…