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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is a great pleasure at last to recognize the many people who have played a part in the completion of this project. I am particularly grateful to Diane Koenker, for her sound advice and exacting standards, but also her warm friendship and sense of humor. Mark Steinberg has also been a great source of close readings, helpful suggestions, and infectious enthusiasm. Through his wonderful courses in Russian imperial history and many discussions, Andrew Verner played an important role in making me the historian I am today. As members of my thesis committee , Keith Hitchins and Paul Valliere provided stimulating criticisms and suggestions. I am happy to thank the professors at Queen’s who first interested me in Russia and in history for their continuing friendship: Christine Johanson, Bob Malcolmson, Anna Matzov, Doris Macknight, and the late George Rawlyk. I thank the staffs of the many archives, libraries, and institutes where I have worked. In Russia, these included the State Museum of the History of Religion, the Russian State Historical Archive, the Central State Archive of the City of St. Petersburg, the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Modern History, the State Archive of the Russian Federation , the Russian State Archive of the Economy, the Russian State Archive of Photographic Documents, and the Manuscript Division of the Russian State Library. Special thanks to Irina Viktorovna Tarasova and Irina Poltavskaia for their advice. I thank S. I. Potolov and his research group at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg for providing an academic home in Russia. V. Iu. Cherniaev in particular was a great source of advice and a good friend. In the United States, I worked at the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives in Nashville and the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. It was a great pleasure to work with the marvelous collections of the Slavic Library at the University of Illinois and with its excellent staff, especially Bob Burger, Helen Sullivan, Terri Tickle, Julia Gauchman, and Angela Cannon. Kevin Murphy and Sascha Goluboff found and delivered some great material that I had missed at the State Archive of the Russian Federation. For many wonderful discussions, the reading of countless drafts, and constant encouragement as I wrote the dissertation from which this book Coleman, Russian Baptists 2/7/05 12:03 PM Page ix emerged, I am especially grateful to Tom Trice. Thanks also to my fellow sektant Nick Breyfogle, and to Peter Brock, for his interest in a young scholar. As I began the process of turning a dissertation into a book, Paul Werth, Jeff Sahadeo, Diane Koenker, and John Coleman offered helpful and critical readings. I thank my two “anonymous” readers with Indiana University Press, Christine Worobec and Nadieszda Kizenko, for their perceptive comments. I have done my best to follow their advice. All remaining flaws are my own. For their help in identifying and preparing illustrations for the book, I am grateful to Sharyl Corrado and Christine Varga-Harris. Thanks also to Dave Brown, at the Image Centre at the University of Calgary, for his help. I thank Janet Rabinowitch and her staff at Indiana University Press, especially Jane Lyle and Rebecca Tolen, for shepherding me through the publishing process, and my copy editor, Rita Bernhard, for her careful advice. Many people have provided friendship and encouragement. During my time in Champaign-Urbana (and since), I enjoyed a wonderful circle of friends, including Petra Alince and Jeff Sahadeo, Tom Trice, Sascha Goluboff, Mary Stuart, Elise Moentmann, Joseph Alfred, Chris Cosner, Peter Fletcher, Jane Hedges, Judy Krajnak, Kathy Mapes, Mickey Moran, Andrew Nolan, Glenn Penny, Laura Phillips, Dan Peris, Paula Rieder, Steve Shoemaker, Randi Storch, Caroline Waldron, Julia Walsh, and Sally West. In Russia, Irina Kuptsova, Valerii Klokov and Galina Khartulari, the late Nina Konstantinovna and Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mizonovy, Oksana and Vadim Aristovy, Tania Rogovskaia (now Scratchley), Iuliia Lintsbakh, Maiia Varshavskaia, and Oleg Moseev all welcomed me. Svetlana Inikova rescued me from a bad case of early-dissertation anxiety and has remained a valued friend and colleague. I am deeply grateful to Lena and Sasha Kalmykovy, for their help, moral support, and for hosting me during a research trip to St. Petersburg in November–December 2001. In Calgary, I am grateful to my many friends at the University of Calgary, especially Jewel Spangler, Doug Peers, Betsy Jameson , Maggie Osler, Martin Staum, Holger Herwig, Tim Travers, Sarah Carter, Susan Graham, Pascale Sicotte, Catalina Vizcarra...

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