George Woodcock and the Doukhobors
Peasant radicalism, anarchism, and the Canadian state
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12903123 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew S Adams (0000-0002-5440-4866, Loughborough University, corresponding author), Luke Kelly (0000-0003-4860-0454, University of Manchester) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 399-423 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Intellectual History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6977 • E-ISSN: 1749-6985 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17496977.2017.1361189 |
| OpenAlex | W2626056043 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
For the British-Canadian writer and intellectual George Woodcock, the Doukhobors – a persecuted radical Christian sect, many members of which emigrated from Russia to Canada at the turn of the twentieth century – were a continual source of fascination. A cause célèbre for a host of nineteenth-century thinkers, including Leo Tolstoy and Peter Kropotkin, the Doukhobors were frequently portrayed as the exemplars of the viewer’s particular ideological beliefs. The present article examines Woodcock’s shifting interpretation of the Doukhobors, mapped onto the development of an intellectual career that saw him emerge as a leading anarchist thinker, and his broader transition from a British writer to a Canadian public intellectual. Where once he saw the Doukhobors representing anarchism in action, as his politics matured his view of the sect became more complex. Rather than living anarchists, he came to see the Doukhobors’ experience as a powerful reminder of the forces of assimilation at work in modern democracies that threatened the liberties of dissenters. Reflecting Woodcock’s revised anarchist politics, the Doukhobors’ story now became a key component of an intellectual vision that cast a probing light on Canadian history and Canadian cultural politics
Archaeology · Ideology · Peasant · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Woodcock · American and British Literature Analysis · Canadian Identity and History · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Short Stories in Global Literature
Canadian History in the
Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism
Reading Marx Writing
Canada's 1960s
Tolstoy and his Disciples
Pacifist "Terrorists" in the "Peaceable Kingdom"
A Great Host of Sympathisers»
Christianity and Humanitarianism in the Doukhobor Campaign, 1895–1902
The New Anarchism in Britain and the US
Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom
The Doukhobors
Whirling with the Other
The Writing of Canadian History
Ethnology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |