Title To make a village Soviet : Jehovah's Witnesses and the transformation of a postwar Ukrainian borderland / Emily B. Baran

Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource Series McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 95 McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 95. Contents The Village -- The Passport -- The Draft -- The Ballot Box -- The State Bonds -- The School -- The Farm -- The Trial -- Release Summary "In June 1949 the Soviet state arrested seven farmers from the village of Bila Tserkva. Not wealthy or powerful, the men were unknown outside their community, and few had ever heard of their small, isolated village on the southwestern border of Soviet Ukraine. Nevertheless, the state decided they were dangerous traitors who threatened to undermine public order, and a regional court sentenced them to twenty-five years of imprisonment for treason. In To Make a Village Soviet Emily Baran explores why a powerful state singled out these individuals for removal from society. Bila Tserkva had to become a space in which Soviet laws and institutions reigned supreme, yet Sovietization was an aspiration as much it was a reality. The arrested men belonged to a small and misunderstood religious minority, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and both Witnesses and their neighbours challenged the government's attempts to fully integrate the village into socialist society. Drawing from the case file and interviews with the families of survivors, Baran argues that what happened in Bila Tserkva demonstrates the sheer ambition of the state's plans for the Sovietization of borderland communities. A compelling history, To Make a Village Soviet looks to Bila Tserkva to explore the power and the limits of state control--and the possibilities created by communities that resist assimilation."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Armageddon Article 58 Bible Students Gulag Jehovahs Witnesses KGB Protestant Romanian Russia Soviet Union Sovietization Stalin Subcarpathia Tisa River Transcarpathia USSR Ukraine WW2 Watchtower World War II Zakarpattia Zakatpate archives borderlands collectivization communism evangelism freedom investigation persecution propaganda proselytism religion repression rural scapegoats sects secularization security socialism surveillance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Jehovah's Witnesses -- Persecutions -- Ukraine -- Bila T︠S︡erkva (Zakarpats'ka oblast') -- History -- 20th century Jehovah's Witnesses -- Ukraine -- Bila T︠S︡erkva (Zakarpats'ka oblast') -- History -- 20th century Jehovah's Witnesses -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century Government, Resistance to -- Ukraine -- Bila T︠S︡erkva (Zakarpats'ka oblast') -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / Europe / Eastern. Government, Resistance to Jehovah's Witnesses Jehovah's Witnesses -- Persecutions SUBJECT Bila T︠S︡erkva (Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) -- Church history -- 20th century Subject Soviet Union Ukraine -- Bila T︠S︡erkva Genre/Form Church history History Form Electronic book ISBN 0228012465 9780228012474 0228012473 9780228012467

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