Conybeare Frederick C. Russian Dissenters

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1921. — 388 p.This work was begun in 1914 and completed nearly as it stands early in 1917, about the time when the Russian Revolution began. It is too early yet to trace the fortunes of the Russian sects during this latest period, for the contradictory news of the struggle is not to be trusted; and few, if any, know what is happening or has happened in unhappy Russia. Since, however, the future is largely molded by the past, I trust that my work may be of some use to those who sincerely desire to understand and trace out the springs of the Revolution. It is not a work of original research. I have only read several Russian authorities and freely exploited them. I have especially used the History of the Russian Raskol by Ivanovski (two volumes, Kazan, 1895 and 1897). He was a professor of the subject at the Kazan Seminary between 1880 and 1895. He tries to be fair, and in the main succeeds in being so...