Labour Immigration and Reemigration of "Spiritual Christians" to Soviet Russia in the 1920s
The article researches labour immigration and reemigration of «spiritual Christians» and their life in the Soviet Russia in the 1920s. Initially Soviet authorities welcomed economic experience and cooperative traditions of sectarian communities. Their mission was to create exemplary farming households. The article analyses dramatic shift in attitude to sects in the late 1920s and its repercussions for the Dukhobors (Pheumatomachians), the Molokans and the New Israelites.