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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. Edited By Georg B. Michels And Robert L. Nichols. A Modern Greek Studies Yearbook Supplement. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 303-312) And Index.