10 Doukhobor books and CDs by Koozma Tarasoff, and friends

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Plakun Trava -- The Doukhobors. 1982, 271 pages. (Enhanced on CD-ROM, 2000. Need Acrobat Reader to see sample pages.) A comprehensive scholarly work which combines the author's insights as a Doukhobor, with the skills and disciplines of a professional historian, writer, and anthropologist. Included is an extensive selection of carefully annotated photos and original historical maps, as well as a glossary, chronology, and other useful index items. 
Volume I. History of the Doukhobors in the Archives of Vladimir D. Bonch-Bruevich 1886-1950s. By Svetlana A. Inikova. Edited by Koozma J. Tarasoff. Illustrated with historic photos. 1999, 139 pages. Rare annotations from the archives in Moscow an dSt. Petersburg, Russia.
Volume II. Doukhobor Incantations Through the Centuries. By Svetlana A. Inikova. Translated by Koozma J. Tarasoff. Illustrated. 137 pages. 1999. Text in Russian and English on adjacent pages. Much of the material comes from Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich's 1899-1900 first-hand collection containing interviews of the newly-arrived Russian Doukhobor migrants in Canada. Volumes I&II, $30 together; single volumes, $20 each.
Spirit Wrestlers Voices. Compiled and edited by Koozma J. Tarasoff. 1998, 387 pages. $25. An illustrated book of 33 authors who commemorate the Centenaries of the Doukhobors -- the 1895 burning of the arms and the coming of 7,500 Doukhobor Russian dissidents to Canada in 1899.
Spirit Wrestlers Centennial Papers in Honour of Canada's Doukhobor Heritage. Edited by Koozma J. Tarazoff and Robert B. Klymasz. 1995, 239 pages. $25. An official publication of the Canadian Museum of Civilization which complemented the Spirit Wrestlers Exhibition January 1996 to September 1998. 
From Russia with Love: The Doukhobors Guest editor: Koozma J. Tarasoff. Special issue of Canadian Ethnic Studies, Volume XXVII, No. 3, 1995, 303 pages. Order from Canadian Ethnic Studies, The University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2n 1N4. $19.95. It includes over 20 papers from scholars, museums, archives, and personal collections from across Canada, the USA, Europe and Russia. 

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Discovering Soviet-West Cooperation -- A Handbook on Soviet-West Bridge-Building Initiatives. 1992, 683 pages. The book presents a variety of strategies for understanding strangers in a cross-cultural context, especially aimed at averting the Cold War and bringing about peace between the East and the West. Includes several hundred model bridge-building initiatives or "door-openers" for international understanding.
Traditional Doukhobor Folkways -- An Ethnographic and Biographic Record of Prescribed Behaviour. 1977 Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Paper No. 20, 396 pages. The voices of the Doukhobors in North America are explored through 13 folkways/values considered to be the most relevant aspects of their tradition. Based on field work in the 1960s and 70s.
A Pictorial History of the Doukhobors. 1969, 280 pages. This is the authors first major book on the Doukhobors. It combines a sociological treatise with an extensive pictorial collection and liberal sprinklings of poetry, together with artistic recreations by a prominent Canadian artist, William Perehudoff. The account of recent history is illuminated by years of personal observation and recording on film.
Spells, Splits, and Survival in a Russian Canadian Community -- A Study of Russian organization in the Greater Vancouver Area. 1989, 397 Pages. An edited version of the author's 1963 Masters thesis in Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia. The book is based on first hand inquiry over a continuous period of 18 months and reveals how group affiliations are influenced by the international social upheavals of nation-building.

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