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Величайшая въ мірѣ коммунистическая организація (Община Духоборовъ) [Velichaishaia v mire kommunisticheskaia organizatsiia (Obshchina Dukhoborov)].

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Rare Russian language tract on ‘The Greatest Communist Society in the World (Doukhobor Society),’ which left Russia for Canada in 1898-9, aided by Leo Tolstoy. Opening with a brief history of the pacifist sect, Tugan-Baranovsky mentions their customs, recounting numerous ethnographical details such as how children would address their mother as ‘Nanny’ and their father as ‘Old Man’, their beliefs, and the reasons for their emigration, giving details of the arrival of the sect in its new home and the process of settlement. The text concludes with an examination of the compatibility of the doctrines of the sect, which described itself as a ‘Christian society of peaceful brotherhood’, with the tenets of Communism.

The photographic illustrations, reproduced from photographs by Tregubov, Sulerzhitskin, and Chertnov, some with an English-language description below, show scenes of the Doukhobor migration: Peter Vasilevich Verigin, sometime spiritual leader of the Doukhobors, the origin of their pacifism, and cause of their emigration to Canada to avoid persecution; the settlers arriving in Yorkton, their new home; the sick settlers being carried on stretchers; two young Doukhobor girls; men queuing for bread; women ploughing; the Doukhobor village in Canada; weaving.

Institutional copies are recorded only at the Russian State Library and the State Public Historical Library.

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