Russian Refuge by Susan Wiley Hardwick - 9780226316109

The University of Chicago Press

Russian RefugeReligion, Migration, and Settlement on the North American Pacific Rim\nAuthor(s): Susan Wiley Hardwick\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226316109, 978-0226316109\nSynopsis\nIn 1987, when victims of religious persecution were finally allowed to leave Russia, a flood of immigrants landed on the Pacific shores of North America. By the end of 1992, over 200,000 Jews and Christians had resettled in a land where they had only recently been considered \""the enemy\"". \""Russian Refuge\"" is a comprehensive account of the Russian immigrant experience in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and British Columbia since the first settlements over two hundred years ago. Susan Hardwick focuses on six little-studied Christian groups - Baptists, Pentecostals, Molokans, Doukhobors, Old Believers, and Orthodox believers - to study the role of religion in their decisions to emigrate and in thei.