Ice sculpture of world friendship at Dow's Lake, Ottawa by the Children's International Summer Villages organization. Seen here are three youth from CISV, including Lev Tarasoff (standing left). February 6, 1980

Discovering Soviet-West Cooperation — A Handbook on Soviet-West Bridge-Building Initiatives Ottawa, Canada: Peace Train Foundation, 1992, 683 pp. 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.                                                                        Top

I. Books, published

1. Spirit Wrestlers: Doukhobor Pioneers' Strategies for Living, by Koozma J. Tarasoff. (Ottawa: Legas Publishing and Spirit-Wrestlers Publishing, 2002), 480 pp.plus i-xvi. The new book features over 700 of the best old and contemporary photos, sketches and maps pertaining to the Doukhobors of the century (including a limited time offer bonus CD-ROM of the book itself with video and audio). This is the most attractive historic, biographical, artistic, photographic and collector's show-book on the Doukhobors ever printed.
   
   
2. 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. Ottawa: Legas & Spirit Wrestlers Associates, 1999, 136 pp. Rare annotations from the archives in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia.
   
   
3. Volume II. Doukhobor Incantations Through the Centuries. By Svetlana A. Inikova. Translated and edited by Koozma J. Tarasoff. Foreword by Robert B. Klymasz. Illustrated by Marie O. Inikova. Ottawa: Legas & Spirit Wrestlers Associates, 1999, 137 pp. 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 and II, $30; single volumes, $20.
   
   
4. Doukhobors — A Survival Guide for 1999. By Koozma J. Tarasoff and Larry A. Ewashen, April 1999, 20 pp. $3. Includes an essay on "The Doukhobor Legacy in Canada: The Road Less Travelled by ... Strangers, Pioneers, and Citizens", and Doukhobor Web sites.
   
   
5. Spirit Wrestlers Voices. Compiled and edited by Koozma J. Tarasoff. Ottawa: Legas, 1998, 387 pp. $25. An illustrated book of 33 authors commemorating the Centenaries of the Doukhobors — the 1895 burning of arms and the coming of 7500 Doukhobor Russian dissidents to Canada in 1899. See sample excerpts: 'Multiculturalism and the rise of a new spirit' (pp. 329-345). Download "Errata," corrections for this book.
   
   
6. Spirit Wrestlers. Centennial Papers in Honour of Canada's Doukhobor Heritage. Edited by Koozma J. Tarasoff & Robert B. Klymasz. Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1995, 239 pp. $25. An official publication of the Museum which complemented the Spirit Wrestlers Exhibition January 1996 to September 1998.
   
   
7. From Russia with Love: The Doukhobors. Guest editor: Koozma J. Tarasoff. Special issue of the Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. XXVII, No. 3, 1995, 303 pp. Order from the Canadian Ethnic Studies, The University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4. $19.95. Includes over 20 papers from scholars, museum and archives personnel form across Canada, the USA, Europe, and Russia.
   Dr. Glenn D. Paige, Hawaii: 'Congratulations to Koozma J. Tarasoff, all authors, and to all associated with the Canadian Ethnic Studies for a uniquely informative historic issue. When we know more about nonviolent cultures, warts and all, throughout the world we will be much clearer about possibilities for liberating ourselves form violence at home and throughout the world.'
   
   
8. In Search of Utopia: The Doukhobors. By Koozma J. Tarasoff and Larry A. Ewashen. Castlegar, B.C.: Spirit Wrestlers Associates, 3rd revised edition, 1994, 60 pp. $10. A concise overview of the Doukhobor movement.
   
   
9. Christian Martyrdom in Russia. By Vladimir Chertkov. A reprint of the Free Age Press 1900 edition by Spirit Wrestlers Associates, 1993, 78 pp. $10. With a Preface by Koozma J. Tarasoff and Larry A. Ewashen. An earlier edition of this book (1897) was used to solicit funds for alleviating the sufferings of the persecuted Doukhobors. Contains a chapter by Tolstoy and a story of the emigration of Doukhobors to Cyprus and Canada.
   
   
10. Discovering Soviet-West Cooperation — A Handbook on Soviet-West Bridge-Building Initiatives. Ottawa, Canada: Peace Train Foundation, 1992, 683 pp. 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.
    
    
11. Spells, Splits, and Survival in a Russian Canadian Community — A Study of Russian Organizations in the Greater Vancouver Area. New York: AMS Press, 1989, 397 pp. An edited version of the author's 1963 M.A. 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 inter-national social upheavals of nation-building.
    
    
12. Preparing to Visit the Soviet Union (or Getting to Know the Stranger). Vancouver, B.C.: Great West Publishing, 1989, 27 pp. A useful guide to the international traveller.
    
    
13. Roots & Connections: A Soviet Odyssey l989. (With Larry A. Ewashen) Vancouver, B.C.: Great West Publishing, 1989, 66 pp. This Doukhobor Village and Russian Cultural History Tour of the Soviet Union is a concise report of an international odyssey in search of personal roots as well as cross-cultural understanding.
    
    
14. Plakun Trava — The Doukhobors. Grand Forks, B.C.: MIR Publications Society, 1982, 271 pp. 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. Includes an extensive selection of carefully annotated photos and original historical maps, as well as a glossary, chronology, and other useful index items. Download the missing Index (MS-Word document)
    
    
15. Symposium Proceedings: (As Editor and Symposium Coordinator) International Doukhobor Intergroup Symposium featuring Doukhobors, Molokans, Mennonites and Quakers held in Castlegar, B.C., Canada, June 25-28, 1982. Grand Forks, B.C.: The Symposium Planning Committee, 1983,120 pp. $10. This was the first time that these traditional peace groups got together internationally to discuss not only the vital issue of peace-making, but also to look at how they can best preserve their cultural heritage as well as fully participate in the wider society.
    
    
16. Celebrations: The Opening of a Community Centre. Grand Forks, B.C.: Mir Publication Society, 1981, 35 pp. Text and photographs describe ceremonies opening the new community centre in September 1980, three years after its predecessor had been burnt down. Special guests include Molokans from California and 15 Soviet entertainers and journalists.
    
    
17. Persistent Ceremonialism: The Plains Cree and Saulteaux. Ottawa, Ontario: National Museums of Canada, 1980, 247 pp. Taped interviews, participant observations, and sketches and photographs in the mid-1960s tell the story of how the social group (and ritual elders in particular) contribute to the identity, stability, and survival of the Native culture.
    
    
18. Traditional Doukhobor Folkways — An Ethnographic and Biographic Record of Prescribed Behavior. Ottawa, Ontario: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, 1977. Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Paper No. 20, 396 pp. 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 1970s.
    
    
19. Review of Community Development Corporations in the U.S.A. — Implications for Canadian Development. Ottawa: Dept. of Regional Economic Expansion, 1973, 77 pp.
    
    
20. A Socio-Economic Review of the Garment Plant — Fisher River and Peguis Communities. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Dept. of Regional Economic Expansion, April 1970, 95 pp. A FRED Project in Manitoba.
    
    
21. A Pictorial History of the Doukhobors. Saskatoon, Sask.: Prairie Books Dept., the Western Producer, 1969, 280 pp. This is the author's first major book on the Doukhobors. It combines a sociological treatise with an extensive pictorial collection and liberal sprinklings of poetry, together with artistic re-creations by a prominent Canadian artist, William Perehudoff. The account of recent history is illuminated by years of personal observation and recording on film.
    
    
22. Recent Experience of Geographic Mobility and Socialization on the Canadian Prairies — A Review. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Dept. of Forestry and Rural Development, 1969, 133 pp.
    
    
23. Some Trends in the Development of Canadian Indian Handicrafts — A Resume of Select Sources. Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1969, 12 pp. plus 147 pp. appendices.
    
    
24. The Broadview Rural Development Area Study. Regina, Sask.: Saskatchewan Department of Welfare, 1968, 136 pp. An ARDA Research project which brings together Indian and non-Indian peoples in a common development area.
    
    
25. A Study of Selected Farm Families in Submarginal Areas of Saskatchewan 1964. Regina, Sask.: Saskatchewan Department of Welfare, 1964, 323 pp. An ARDA Research report.

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II. Published Articles

1. Tolstoy and the Doukhobors.  A paper presented at the First Global Nonkilling Leadership Forum, Hawaii. November 1-4, 2007.
   
   
2. The Events That Shook the World in 1895. An article for Ahimsa Nonviolence, International Gandhian Institute for Nonviolence and Peace (IGINP), Tamil Nadu, India. July 19, 2006.
   
   
3. The Mysterious Death of Doukhobor Leader Peter V. Verigin in 1924. For the new website: Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History launched on April 27, 2006.  Includes 16 photos of the dedication ceremony and my presentation: The Significance of Peter V. Verigin
   
   
4. Letter To the Editors of Iskra and The Dove: Cultural Appreciation Tour, Donations needed for guest costs. March 2, 2006.
   
   
5. Book Review: Andrew Donskov. Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors: an historic relationship.
   Ottawa, Ontario. February 2006
   
   
6. Book Review: Nicholas B. Breyfogle. Heretics and Colonizers: forging Russia's empire in the south Caucasus. Ottawa, Ontario. February 2006.
   
   
7. 'My Russian Ancestors.' Submitted to Green and White Alumni Magazine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, July 2005
   
   
8. 'What Lev N. Tolstoy means to me and the Doukhobors.' Published in Andrew Donskov’s Leo Tolstoy and the Canadian Doukhobors: an historic relationship (Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa, 2005). Pages 233-237.
   
   
9. 'A notorious anti-Doukhobor Act is in breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms', in Molokan News, May 1, 2005. The Community Regulation Act of March 1914 ... ought to be repealed.
   
   
10. 'In Appreciation of the Life of Peter T. Oglow (1913-2004)', in Molokan News, February 3, 2004.
    
    
11. Yasnaya Polyana in Bulgaria Features Conference on Lev N. Tolstoy, Ottawa, Canada, August 21, 2003
    
    
12. Doukhobor Writer Publishes Major Book in May 2003: Spirit Wrestlers: Doukhobor Pioneers’ Strategies for Living, Ottawa, Canada, August, 2003
    
    
13. 'Protest in Ottawa Brings Consensus Against War in Iraq', in Molokan News, January 22, 2003
    
    
14. 'NO TO WAR!: a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien', in Molokan News, September 1, 2002. We are living in exciting and dangerous times. The September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on New York and Washington are examples of this.
    
    
15. 'Doukhobors', an Entry in The Oxford Campanion of Canadian History edited by Gerald Hallowell. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002.
    
    
16. 'The Doukhobor Pioneering Spirit', a series of 10 columuns in Iskra, various issues, 2001. Includes: 1. The Peace Act. 2. The Work Ethic. 3. Cooperation is the Way. 4. Creativity and Inventiveness. 5. Cleanliness is Next to Godliness. 6. Singing from the Soul. 7. The Spirit of Sharing and Hospitality. 8. The Bridge-Building Tradition. 9. The Spirit Within. 10. Roots for Survival.
    
    
17. 'Heritage Village Acquires Doukhobor Elevator', The Kamsack Times, March 29, 2001, page 1.
    
    
18. 'Doukhobor Pioneers of the Century', in The Doukhobor Centenary in Canada. A Multi-disciplinary Perspective on Their Unity and Diversity, edited by Andrew Donskov, John Woodsworth, and Chad Gaffield. Ottawa: Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa and the Institute of Canadian Studies, 2000, pp. 293-206.
    
    
19. 'Foreword', in The Doukhobors of Canada. Ottawa: Parks Canada, 2000.
    
    
20. 'Growing Up Doukhobor', in A Collection of Stories compiled and edited by Glynnis Ewashen. Calgary, Alberta: Lazy Girl Productions, 2000.
    
    
21. Obituary of Kenneth Peacock: Outstanding Canadian Musician, Musicologist and Folklorist. Born in Toronto in 1922. Died in Ottawa.  November 22, 2000
    
    
22. 'Festival of Words Celebrates Doukhobors and Many Others', in Iskra, September 27, 2000, pp. 20-21.
    
    
23. 'Notes by Koozma J. Tarasoff for a talk at THE FESTIVAL OF PEACE', Ottawa, Ontario September 16, 2000, in Molokan News. A message of the Doukhobor movement for a  world without war. The event was sponsored by the Coalition To Oppose the Arms Race.
    
    
24. 'Doukhobors', an Entry in Paul Robert Magocsi, editor, Encyclopedia of Canada's People. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, 422-435 pp. The 1,380-page encyclopedia is the first to document the immigration and settlement patterns of 119 groups (and numerous sub-groups) that make Canada what it is today.
    
    
25. 'Rugs Depict Doukhobor History', in Creston Valley Advance, July 8, 1999: 15.
    
    
26. 'More Doukhobors Move from Georgia to Russia', (Ottawa, Ontario), Molokan News, April 1, 1999.
    Also on the DIF - Doukhobor International Forum.
    
    
27. 'Canadian Doukhobors as peacemakers', published in Dolgii Put Rossiiskogo Patsifisma [The Long Way of Russian Pacifism]. Moscow: Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Science, 1997, 137-149 pp. A survey of Canadian Doukhobor history since their migration from Russia to Canada in 1899, with a focus on their central philosophy of nonviolence.
    
    
28. 'Tolstoy at the Threshold of the 21st Century', in Iskra (Grand Forks, B.C.), no. 1817, April 24, 1996, 25-28 pp. A report on an International Conference 'Tolstoy and the Century' at Ottawa University (Ottawa), February 22-24, 1996.
    
    
29. 'Doukhobor Survival through the Centuries', in Canadian Ethnic Studies (Calgary), vol. 27, no. 3, 1995, 4-23 pp.
    
    
30. Introduction: 'One hundred Years of Doukhobors in Retrospect', in Canadian Ethnic Studies (Calgary), vol. 27, no. 3, 1995, 1-3 pp.
    
    
31. 'The Spirit Wrestlers', This Country Canada (Pakenham, Ontario), no. 4, winter 1994, 52-63 pp. In this colourful illustrated article, the Author tells the story of his people and his family, as Canada's 30,000 Doukhobors prepare to celebrate their centennial.
    
    
32. 'The People of Perestroika Revisited', in Iskra (Grand Forks, B.C.), January 1993. The Author's 12th visit to the former Soviet Union included speaking at an International Seminar on the History of Russian Peacemaking, as well as visits to Doukhobors in the new settlement of Cherns south of Tula, and other places in Russia. "As a professional ethnographer and photojournalist, I have sought to understand the enigma of the Slavic peoples, including my ancestors the Doukhobors. As with the past, the 1992 trip was privately sponsored and provides an independent assessment of these people as I see them with my own senses. I am one of their countrymen, yet I am Canadian born. I am one with one foot in one culture and the other one in another. I am a member of that important growing breed of peoples who dare step across boundaries as citizen diplomats and world citizens."
    
    
33. 'In Search of a new spirit in Russia and the Soviet Union', in Kamsack Times (Kamsack, Sask.), Part 1 (Dec. 19, 1991: 2), Part 2 (Dec. 26, 1991: 14), Part 3 (Dec. 26, 1991: 16), and Part 4 (Dec. 26, 1991: 18). Article is based on a five-week odyssey during the summer of 1991 on the Author's 11th trip to the Soviet Union including a personal witness of the August 19-21 failed coup and visits to Russian Doukhobor villages.
    
    
34. 'Spirit Wrestlers Prepare for the 100th Anniversary of the Burning of Firearms', in The Peacebuilder (Maryland) , vol. 2, no. 1, 1991, 8-9 pp. Illustrated. Also published in The Kamsack Times (Kamsack, Sask.), as 'Doukhobors prepare for centenary of burning of arms', July 25, l99l, p. 20.
    
    
35. 'The Coming of Age of the Doukhobors in the 1980s' Canadian Ethnic Studies (Calgary), vol. 19, no. 2, 1987, 124-30 pp. Ms. version presented at the Canadian Association of Slavists meeting during the Learned Societies in Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 7, 1986. Abstract: 'The behavior of Canadian Doukhobors in the 1980s has been molded by social changes and the psychological search for internal consistency in belief and action. Paradoxically, as the pervasive assimilative forces of the mainstream grind many other groups into one mold, the Doukhobors are showing signs of revival and original growth consistent with their early beliefs, especially as related to their central motivation of getting rid of the institution of militarism.'
    
    
36. 'Gathering , preserving, and using historical Doukhobor photographs', in Ruth Dyck Wilson and Kathryn Szalasznyj, eds., Caring for Our Past: Documenting Saskatchewan's Multicultural Heritage. Regina and Saskatoon: Saskatchewan Archives Board, 1985, 61-65 pp.
    
    
37. 'Perspectives on communications in transcultural situations: the case of the Doukhobors', in Multicultural Education Journal (Edmonton), vol. 1, no. 2, Nov. 1983, 5-18 pp. The paper isolates several incidents in Doukhobor history which illustrate how misinformation or lack of effective communication has led to values conflict, disruptions in intergroup relations, conflict with the law, and a loss of self-image. Several cross-cultural skills are presented for averting this situation.
    
    
38. 'The western settlement of Canadian Doukhobors', in Benjamin G. Smillie, ed., Visions of the New Jerusalem: Religious Settlement in the Prairies' (Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1983, 121-36 pp. A general survey of the strained relations between the Doukhobors and the Canadian institutions and society, and a model for developing an alternative future.
    
    
39. 'Peace is the Only Hope for Civilization', in Peace Research (Huntsville, Ontario), vol. 13, no.2, 1981, 53-58 pp.
    
    
40. 'Doukhobors — Their Migration Experience', in Canadian Ethnic Studies (Calgary), Fall 1974, 1-11 pp. Doukhobor migration is a classic case of adjustment to a new environment, encompassing diverse cultural backgrounds. Their historical circumstances in Tsarist Russia, together with the corresponding Canadian reception, provide an insight not only into resettlement, but also into an understanding of individualism vs. communalism, the conscience vs. the State, zealotry, intergroup relations, and integration. Migration and adjustment is a special case of societal survival.
    
    
41. 'Creating International Linkages: The Soviet Union and the West', in Iskra (Grand Forks, B.C.), no. 1315, July 7, 1972, 22-26 pp., 33-34 pp.
    
    
42. 'Russians of the Greater Vancouver Area', in Slavs in Canada, I (Edmonton: Inter-University Committee on Canadian Slavs), 1966, 138-147 pp. Summary results from the Author's 1963 M.A. Thesis at the University of British Columbia
    
    
43. 'Zealots and the Doukhobors', in Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg), June 1965, 23-24 pp. The article emphasizes the importance of distinquishing between fanatics and rank-and-file Doukhobors.
    
    
44. 'The Doukhobors in Perspective', Fellowship (Nyack, N.Y.), March 1965, 19-22 pp. Thoughts on peace, disarmament, and friendship on personal and international levels, with particular reference to East-West relations.
    
    
45. "Report of the press of British Columbia regarding Doukhobor and "Sons of Freedom" news', in The Inquirer (Saskatoon), vol. 5, no. 5-8, June-September 1958, 1-17 pp. The study covers 34 British Columbia newspapers in the period 1954-1958 and reveals that the press policy has resulted in prejudice and discrimination against Doukhobors and zealots alike.
    
    
46. 'Man and His Conscience', in The Inquirer (Saskatoon), vol. 4, no. 10, December 1957, 3-7 pp. Originally written for radio, and adapted to theatre, it was first performed in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan on December 8, 1957, and later in Alberta and British Columbia by a Saskatchewan Doukhobor Youth Group which toured various regions, and held panel discussions, speeches, singing and the play.
    
    
47. 'Impressions of My Visit to the Soviet Union', in The Inquirer (Saskatoon), vol. 4, no. 6, August 1957, 4-10 pp. Reflections of the Author's first trip to the Soviet Union, while attending the VIth World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.
    
    
48. 'The Quaker contribution: Part I, The story of the deliverance from Tsarist oppression; Part II, Pioneer story of the Doukhobors on the prairies', in The Inquirer (Saskatoon), vol. 3, no. 3, April 1956, 30-38 pp.; no. 4, May 1956, 18-23 pp.
    

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1. Letter to the Editor, Friends Journal — Nov. 29, 2006
   
   
2. Vaschenko – A Literary Bridge-Builder Across Cultural Boundaries — Posted Nov. 11, 2006. Updated Dec. 13, 2006
   
   
3. Doukhobors in World War II, paper presented to the "Panel on Religion and Conscientious Objection in the Wider World", at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba at the conference: "War and the Conscientious Objector: Historical Perspectives". — 3-5 p.m. Friday, October 20, 2006
   
   
4. In Memory of Anthropologist Harry Bertram Hawthorn (1910-2006) — Chairman of the Doukhobor Research Committee. Aug 9, 2006
   
   
5. In Memory of Professor Emeritus Peter Brock — 5 August, 2006
   
   
6. Historians Against War: Letter to Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper.  July 27, 2006
   
   
7. 5  Corrections for National Defence website. July 12, 2006
   
   
8. A Message to the Annual Petrov Dien / Doukhobor Peace Day, Doukhobor Heritage Village, Verigin, Saskatchewan. June 29, 2006
   
   
9. World Peace Forum and March, Vancouver, British Columbia. 4 reports, 7 photos. June 23-28, 2006
   
   
10. Doukhobor Cultural Bridgebuilding Project: Schedule for May 1-31, 2006. Map, 144 photos.
    
    
11. The Mysterious Death of Doukhobor Leader Peter V. Verigin in 1924. For the new website: Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History launched on April 27, 2006.  Includes 16 photos of the dedication ceremony and my presentation: The Significance of Peter V. Verigin
    
    
12. 'My Russian Ancestors.' Submitted to Green and White Alumni Magazine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, July 2005.
    
    
13. 'Spirit Wrestlers — Evolving Perceptions in Canadian Literature', a paper presented at the Fourth Annual Saskatchewan Festival of Words, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, July 27-30, 2000, 19 pp.
    
    
14. Obituary of Kenneth Peacock: Outstanding Canadian Musician, Musicologist and Folklorist. — Born Toronto 1922,  Died Ottawa November 22, 2000.
    
    
15. 'Nine Persistent Myths of the Doukhobors', paper presented at the Open Forum on Doukhobors at the threshold of the 21st century, International Conference on the Doukhobors, University of Ottawa, October 23, 1999, 9 pp. 'The myths I have selected are those that have played havoc with the Doukhobors and non-Doukhobors for at least 100 years. Most have an element of truth, but largely are riddled with mystery, hearsay, contradictions, and often wishful thinking.'
    
    
16. The Power of Bread, Salt and Water. Presented to Toastmasters International in Ottawa, Ontairo, March 10, 1999.
    
    
17. Three Lansdowne Lectures at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, October 20-21, 1997: (1) 'Spirit Wrestlers: Early Canadian Pioneers', 45 pp.; (2) 'Doukhobors at the Threshold of the Millennium', 19 pp.; and (3) 'Doukhobors, Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and the Rise of a New Spirit', 17 pp. The lectures were open to the public and brought out many people with interesting questions about sensitive issues: the land issue, zealots, ecology, war and peace, the role of the Russian language in society, basic traditions, food and vegetarianism, ideological connections with other peoples, photo sources, and who is doing research in Russia today.
    
    
18. 'Who are the Spirit-Wrestlers / The Doukhobors?' A handout used in the summer of 1993 at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in conjunction with the Pre-Test survey used to gather pubic responses to the Doukhobor Exhibition, Hull, Quebec, 2 pp.
    
    
19. 'Public Responses to the Doukhobor Exhibition to be mounted by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, January 19, 1995 to July 6, 1996', Hull, Quebec, August 11, 1993, 18 pp. This commissioned report summarizes the findings of a five-page Pre-Test questionnaire which was administered to sixty people in the summer of 1993. The respondents included people from across Canada as well as from USA, Germany, Croatia, Cuba, Poland, France, El Salvador, Trinidad-Tobago, Australia, Bulgaria, South Africa, Denmark, Russia, and Argentina.
    
    
20. 'Backgrounder on the Nomination of the Doukhobors for the 1994 Nobel Peace Award', Ottawa, May 17, 1993, 16 pp. Prepared for the nominators, three Members of Parliament, House of Commons, Ottawa.
    
    
21. 'Dr. Nicholas Zbitnoff — A Profile'. Notes used during "The Event to End All Events", Ukiah, California, December 28-29, 1990, 12 pp. The Zbitnoff children (Igor, Max, Tamara, and Anna) invited Koozma as their guest to this event which was held in the original home where their parents lived from 1946 to the 1980s. Dr. Zbitnoff died in December 1987 at the age of 85, while his wife Doris died in the summer of 1990.
    
    
22. 'From Confrontation to Cooperation — Soviet-Western Relations', The Mary B. Elkinton Visiting Friend Day Lecture, Media-Providence Friends School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1990.
    
    
23. 'The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword — The Role of Writers, a Doukhobor Perspective', in Iskra (Grand Forks, B.C.), April 1989; also published in Russian, 26 April, 1989, pp. 2-8. The talk was presented by the Author at the Writers in Society Conference, Brilliant, B.C., March 19, 1989, featuring Soviet and Canadian authors.
    
    
24. 'Ontario-Tataria: My Land is Your Land', Draft No. 1 (Ottawa), 59 pp. This is the Author's portion of a joint Canada-USSR book with screen-writer Vakhit Sharipov of Kazan, USSR. The Author spent August 19 to Septemberf 16, 1988 in Kazan as guest of Tataria, doing interviews with his people and visiting the region. Immediately after, Vakhit came to Canada as the Author's guest, and continued his observations in a comparable manner in Ontario and Saskatchewan. The intent of the book is 'to assist the process of Soviet-West understanding by dispelling misconceptions about the other, by promoting the idea (by our example) that joint ventures are the ways of the future, and by stimulating peoples interest in the value of coexistence and cooperation in jointly solving our many global problems that threaten our very existence as a human species.'
    
    
25. 'New Directions for a Living, Creative and Caring Future', notes for a Banquet Talk to the Saskatoon Doukhobor Society in honor of their volunteers, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, January 23, l988, 11 pp. 'The challenge is enormous. What we sow today can later blossom on the fields of humanity ... The first step begins with us.'
    
    
26. 'Getting to Know the Stranger in Your Living Room'. Ottawa, 1988, 17 pp. Paper presented at the Learned Societies Meetings in Windsor, Ontario, June 6, 1988, in the panel on 'Peace as Interaction: Canadian/Soviet Perspectives'. The author cites, among other things, his experience bringing together Doukhobor factions in a living room setting as background for his efforts to allay misunderstandings, fears, and mistrust between the East and the West.
    
    
27. 'Professionalization for the Doukhobor Movement — Ideas for modernizing the activities of the Saskatoon Area Doukhobors', a discussion paper, March 10, 1987, 3 pp. plus 2-page appendix. 'It is the hope of this Discussion Paper to stimulate a shift in thinking and action towards local reconstruction, so that local people can expend more of their energies for the attainment of the central core of their movement — that of friendship and international understanding.'
    
    
28. 'Government Policy and Multicultural Education: The Case of the Doukhobors'. Notes for a lecture in an education class, University of Calgary, February 17, 1983, 9 pp. The paper shows that the road towards mulitcultural accommodation has been very difficult, esp. amongst Community and zealot Doukhobors.
    
    
29. 'Field Studies in Multicultural Education', a Seminar at the University of Calgary, February 18, 1983, 10 pp. The author states that 'in studying any components of a cross-cultural situation...you need (l) rapport, (2) a sincere interest or attention in our subject, (3) the acceptance of difference as a normal phenomenon, (4) the creative ability ... to step into the shoes of the other person, (5) having a clear notion of our outcome, (6) good sensory acuity in seeing, hearing, and feeling the messages from your respondent, with attention to feedback, and (7) flexibility in getting your task accomplished ...'
    
    
30. 'The Child With a Difference' Notes for a Panel Discussion at the Alberta Teachers Association Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, February 18, 1983, 8 pp. Several personal metaphors illustrate the notion of the child with a difference.
    
    
31. 'Discovering NLP', Ottawa, second draft, 1982, 157 pp. After training as a practitioner in the art of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, the author sets out to present in layman's terms this new communications technology which had been first created in the early 1970s in the Redwoods of California. The technology focuses on the use of our sensory acuity in therapy, education, business, global and cross-cultural development as well as general communications. Illustrated.
    
    
32. 'The Doukhobors and the Russian Connection'. Paper prepared for the Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 30, 1981, 25 pp. Conclusion: 'To many Doukhobors, their vision is clear: to bridge the understanding gap between the North American West and the Soviet East. Without this bridge, the Holocaust will surely engulf us all whether citizens, immigrants or just plain people.'
    
    
33. 'The State of the Doukhobor Movement in North America', November 21, 1980, 13 pp. A review of how the group has sought to preserve its culture in a North American setting.
    
    
34. 'Young and Old: A Strategy to Action for the Doukhobors in the Greater Saskatoon Region of Saskatchewan', Ottawa: The Author, 1976, 4 pages. Paper presented to the Doukhobor Society of Saskatoon.
    
    
35. 'The Broadview Rural Development Area Revisited'. The Author, 1976, 78 pp.
    
    
36. 'Search For Autonomy: The World of Rural Indians in Southern Saskatchewan.' An Interim Report by Mitsuru Shimpo, Koozma J. Tarasoff, and Andre Renaud, 1976, 92 pp.
    
    
37. 'Doukhobors and Mennonites — A Comparative Study of Ideological Persistence in Response to the Institution of Militarism.' Ottawa, June 1975, 66 pp. This is a revised term paper for Sociology 690-691, Tutorial on the Nature and Dynamics of Plural Societies, led by Frank Vallee and Alexander Matejko, Carleton University, Ottawa. Comparisons are made on militarism, oath-taking, census-taking and registration, communal ownership of land, and educational policy and socialization by the state. There is a chapter on ideology, social stability and social change, with a forecast for the future.
    
    
38. 'Centralization and Decentralization in Socio-Economic Development in Canada — Towards a Macro-Sociological Analysis'. Term paper for Sociology 506, Theory of Social Organization and Change, Carleton University, Ottawa, April 1975, 53 pp.
    
    
39. 'The Ideal and the Equality and Social Policy — A Focus on Poverty'. Term paper for Sociology 601, Theory and Research, Carleton University, Ottawa, January 1975, 40 pp. plus Bibliography.
    
    
40. 'Fission-Fusion in a Multi-Ethnic Society: An Examination of Local, Regional and International Events as They Relate to Western Canada'. A term paper for Sociology 525, Canadian Society, Carleton University, Ottawa, December 1974, 132 pp.
    
    
41. 'Canadian Indians: Towards a Viable Social Policy'. Term paper for Sociology 528, Social Policy and Applied Sociology, Carleton University, Ottawa, November 1974, 64 pp.
    
    
42. 'Prairie Life on the Canadian Prairies, 1899'. Selections prepared and translated from Russian to English by the Author, July 1974, 28 pp. Selections taken from Leopold Sulerzhitsky's book V Ameriku s dukhobortsami, 1905.
    
    
43. 'Problems and Prospects for Development in Northern Saskatchewan — Visit No. 1, July 1968', Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1968, 44 pp. A report to the Rural Development Branch, Dept. of Forestry and Rural Development.
    
    
44. 'A Listing of Ethnic Communities in Saskatchewan', a commissioned work for the National Museums of Canada (Ottawa), 1965, 103 pp. plus questionnaire. The listing includes various ethnic communities in Saskatchewan settled since the latter part of the nineteenth century and established in both rural and urban areas, giving their locations, length of tenure, approximate population, and indicating the degree to which traditional customs and crafts remain productive for further research and the names of informants who might be helpful in procuring artifacts for the National Museum exhibits.
    
    
45. 'Sociological Study of the Doukhobors in Canada', a commissioned essay for the National Museums of Canada (Ottawa), 1964, 61 pp. plus 2-page bibliography. The Author contends that the Doukhobor can best be described as a 'social movement'. 'This latter concept suggests a stirring in society. In turn, this presupposes dissatisfaction with the existing social order and a moving towards a desired objective. The objective...is a search for universal brotherhood.'
    
    
46. 'Cultural Interchange Between the Non-Slavic Peoples of the Soviet Union and the People of Russian Background in the Greater Vancouver Area', a term paper in Slavonic Studies 340 (Peoples of the Soviet Union), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, April 8, 1963, 24 pp. A treatise about cultural borrowing from Transcaucasia and its transfer to Vancouver, Canada.
    
    
47. 'In Search of Brotherhood: The History of the Doukhobors'. 3 vols. Vancouver, January 1963, 1006 pp. Copyright ts., mimeo. This is basic material fully supported with reference notes (based on archival studies and personal observations) used by the Author in his future studies and later was used liberally by George Woodcock in his study of the Doukhobor movement.
    

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IV. Films, Posters, etc.

1. Photographer for 'The Doukhobor Heritage Interpretation Rug Display', May 1 - September 30, 1999, at the Doukhobor Village Museum, Castlegar, BC. Curated by Larry A. Ewashen. On the Centennial of the Doukhobor Immigration to Canada 1899-1999.
   
   
2. 'Shot Log on the Doukhobors, May-August 1995', filmed in Western Canada on Hi8 by Koozma J. Tarasoff and Kristina Kristova on the Centennial celebrating the 1895 Burning of Firearms in Tsarist Russia", Ottawa, 1995, 118 pp. The 31 2-hour cassettes provide important visual documentation of the celebrations in Canada of the now famous "Burning of Arms" event which defied the Russian Tsar in l895 and led to the expulsion of 7500 Doukhobors to Canada in l899. The videos recorded some 60 hours of interviews, meetings, scenics, choral presentations, speeches, and close-ups of traditional artifacts and practices.
   
   
3. A trilingual two-coloured Poster (18" by 25") launches the Doukhobor Centennials in 1995, and features the first group of Doukhobors to Canada on S.S.Lake Huron, in January 1899. $5 plus postage and handling. Also the same trilingual two-coloured image was used in the Centennial Post Cards and Greeting Cards. Post cards at $l each or 7 for $5. Greeting Cards with envelopes at $2 each.
   
   
4. 'Tarasoff Photo Collection on Doukhobor History — An Annotated User Guide', First Revised Edition, January 1979 (First Edition began in 1960), Ottawa, 469 pp. Plus extensions to 1991. Prepared for use by the Public Archives of British Columbia, Victoria, B.C., where the Tarasoff Collection is housed. 'It is hoped that this First Revised Edition will better serve the user whether he/she is a university student, a television producer, a magazine editor, a librarian, or simply an interested observer who desires to peruse the Guide and perhaps requisition selected prints for personal use.'
   
   
5. 'Doukhobors — Yesterday and Today, Their Problems and Perspectives', outline for talk in Russian at the Soviet Embassy, Ottawa, Ontario, January 15, 1990, 8 pp. A display of 107 photographs around the Embassy Reception Hall provided a visual view of the Doukhobors on both continents.
   
   
6. ' In Search of Utopia: The Doukhobors'. A 16 mm, 60 minute black and white film, produced by Larry A. Ewashen with Koozma J. Tarasoff as historical consultant, 1978. Available in VHS at $50. The film traces the arrival of Doukhobors through original documents prior to and including the 1890s, after which it concentrates on interviews and narration's of the Doukhobors, to the present time.
   
   
7. 'Land-use Conflict in the Okanagan'. A ten-minute synchronized two-projector colored slide program, produced by the Author for the Canadian
   Council on Rural Development, Ottawa, December 1976.
   
   
8. 'A Story of the Doukhobors through slides, narration and song', a script with slides for a multi-media presentation by Saskatchewan Doukhobors, held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, April 21, 1973.
   

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V. Quotes, Reviews, Comments

1. 'The work you are doing regarding the history of the Doukhobors is very important not only to our generation, but to our children and future generations. My nieces and nephews who have married other than Doukhobors were totally absorbed in the books I have which were written by you....' Lola Shertotbitoff, Castlegar, BC, Email letter, December 30, 2000.
   
   
2. 'How wonderful it is for me to read your books!' — Yoshik Nakamura, scholar, Tokyo, Japan, Email letter January 23, 2001.
   
   
3. Review by F. Mark Mealing of Kaslo, BC of Plakun Trava, CD-ROM: 'This CD-ROM is, as the title indicates, a PC [and Mac] version of a book published in 1982 and now out of print. Plakun Trava was a major and valuable work in Doukhobor Studies when it first appeared, and its reappearance on the CD-ROM medium is a welcome and important event.
   

'I have recently examined a new Anthropology textbook with a CD-ROM which merely reproduced the text content without illustrations, and added lists of weblinks, its only real use. Students would be better served by a floppy file of weblinks. By contrast, Tarasoff's CD-ROM is far more valuable because is designed for more uses, and thus sets a fine mark for emulation....Tarasoff and Imaginique are to be commended for the high standards they apply to moving material from print to CD-ROM format. I look forward to their next production.' Review in Ethnologies, vol. 23, 2, 2001: 185-186.


4. 'I want to tell you how much I appreciate your continued activity in promoting awareness of Doukhobor history and the contributions made by the "ordinary" Doukhobor women and men in communities across Canada who continue to enhance tolerance and peace in our society, simply by virtue of their own behaviour. It is the power of this modelling that has contributed immensely to my own personal and professional development.' —Patrick Konkin, Social Worker, Nanaimo, BC, Email letter January 19, 2001.
   
   
5. 'I wanted to let you know what a great influence your books and your works have had on people in my family. My cousin Lance didn't know anything about the Doukhobors when we started this project, only that there were all these "secrets" in the family, and that we were some kind of Russians. When he heard the word Doukhobor he went right out and started looking for books and any other kind of information he could get his hands on....And I must say that this new understanding that he's been getting from your books has affected his whole outlook on life....I just wanted to let you know what a positive effect you've had, and how we appreciate it.' — Janice Benthin, National Film Board of Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Email letter, March 21, 2001.
   
   
6. 'All of your articles are most informative, particularly to those who have not had the privilege or opportunity to have so much of the history passed on to them. Even I am learning new information from your writings....I am looking forward to your new publication, Spirit Wrestlers: Doukhobor Pioneers of the Century.' Email letter from William Anatooskin, Burnaby, BC, May 8, 2001.
   
   
7. 'Please accept this admittedly inadequate expression of profound respect to you and your colleagues for your work in preserving and communicating the uniquely significant Doukhobor contribution to future nonviolent / nonkilling global transformation.' —Dr. Glenn D. Paige, President, Centre for Global Nonviolence", Honolulu, Hawaii, September 26, 1999.
   
   
8. 'Congratulations to Koozma J. Tarasoff, all authors and to all associated with Canadian Ethnic Studies for a uniquely informative historic issue. When we know about nonviolent cultures, warts and all, throughout the world we will be much clearer about possibilities for liberating ourselves from violence at home and throughout the world.' —Dr. Glenn D. Paige, President, Centre for Global Nonviolence, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 29 1999.
   
   
9. 'The purpose of this letter is to express my appreciation to you for the wondrous event you helped pull off in Castlegar at the Burning of Arms celebrations. Too often we take for granted that an event like that takes much hard work, and despite the fact that a committee was in place to take care of matters, I personally know what you have put into this cause over the years. You are to be recognized though many will no doubt fail to acknowledge your hard work.' —Dr. John W. Friesen, Dept. of Educational Policy and Administrative Studies, University of Calgary, Alberta, July 29, 1995.
   
   
10. 'I am terribly pleased that you still have such a strong bond with Old Russia. It deserves something special from All Doukhobor people. You probably are in a better position to sense that then I, seeing that you are more with them than ever was.... Doukhobors are a special people, and I certainly am happy that you are so close to them now! They deserve more attention than they get here. Our Government ignores them far too much!!!' —John A. Popoff, Yorkton, Sask., November 23, 1990.
    
    
11. 'By the way, you were much too humble in your letter of introduction. You are the author of, the best book on the Doukhobors: Plakun Trava.' —Jim Shockey, Folk Furniture collector, Vancouver, B.C., August 19, 1989.
    
    
12. 'In Plakun Trava, the definitive work on the Doukhobors by Koozma Tarasoff...the author discusses this dramatic change in human behavior as a 'paradigm shift' — a rare occurrence in history when a great social change or revival occurs with profound effect on the human race. After pondering this concept for a short while the thought soon came to mind that what is desperately needed now — on a worldwide scale — is another of these paradigm shifts — a refusal of all people and governments to be involved in any way with either the use of or manufacture of nuclear weapons.' — Harry Killough, in Castlegar News, September 27, 1987. p. A5.
    
    
13. 'I consider your book Plakun Trava the finest work yet on the Doukhobors. I have read it slowly chapter by chapter each evening for both knowledge and to relax with after my other work is finished. As such it has given me a feeling of tranquillity gained while adding to my knowledge! Along with all else it is the style and feeling with which you write.' —Professor Robert J. Theodoratus, Dept. of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, February 21, 1987.
    
    
14. 'My purpose in writing is to tell you how much I have enjoyed your work [Traditional Doukhobor Folkways]....As I read your ethnography, I feel as if I had met the people you interviewed and had spoken with them....My heartfelt thanks to you for doing the work and to the Museum of Canada for the support you received in making this work possible.' —Sandra L. Jones Ireland, journalism and anthropology student at the Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, April 12, 1986.
    
    
15. 'I would strongly recommend this book [Plakun Trava] to all scholars interested in sectarian religious groups and in the study of ethnicity, and to all libraries that consider themselves repositories of important collections in these fields.' —Ethel Dunn, head of Highgatge Road Social Science Research Station, Berkeley, California, in Slavic Review, vol. 143, fall 1984, 495-496 pp.
    
    
16. 'Koozma Tarasoff has approached the task of writing Plakun Trava with dedication and thoroughness. The book's album format, its numerous photographs, and sixteen explicit maps and drawings all add to its importance as an indispensable compendium of up-to-date information on Canada's Doukhobors.' —Dr. Robert B. Klymasz, folklorist, Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol. XXV1, no. 1, March 1984: 107.
    
    
17. 'Can the Chinese be right about the year of the Monkey? — clever, resourceful, very energetic, great organizer, etc. But for these and many other fine characteristics, I think you take the Grand Prize.' —Kenneth Peacock, folklorist, Ottawa, February 28, 1992.
    
    
18. 'My In-Laws recently gave me a copy of your new book Plakun Trava....May I offer my congratulations on a truly excellent historical publication. If more ethnic/religious groups produced books of such quality, Canadian heritage would be greatly enhanced.' —Eric Jonasson, Genealogist, Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 24, 1982.
    
    
19. 'The signed copy of your new book arrived yesterday....What a superb piece of work! Without question the definitive volume on Doukhobor history and, clearly, the result of passionate patient research. At last, a balanced, scholarly, objective — but oh, so sensitive — statement, in English, written by one who is and can speak for all Doukhobors. From title to conclusion it is fascinating. If only some of the national and international establishments would follow and practice the Doukhobor philosophy of brotherhood and peace what a different world this would be! You are right, the time is now! This is a book with a message. I am overwhelmed.' —Francis Mavor Moore, dramatist, Toronto, Ontario, August 20, 1982.
    
    
20. 'The book [Plakun Trava] is probably the most complete and in-depth history of the Doukhobors yet written, and has full colored illustrations throughout....It should be in every public library throughout Canada.' —Stanley Orris, editor, Grand Forks Gazette, July 28, 1982, p. 4.

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VI. Organizational and Other Productions

1. 2000-2002: Assisted several film makers with interviews, voice-overs, historical research, script-writing, and photo searches and sales. Namely, Dorothy Dickie's A Doukhobor Story in the White Pine Pictures production series of A Scattering of Seeds, The Creation of Canada, premiere on History Television, March 31, 2001; Jim Hamm of Jim Hamm Productions Ltd., Vancouver, BC, in his documentary film on the Doukhobors (to be broadcast on TV in 2002). Ole Gjerstad and Janince Benthin of the National Film Board of Canada, Montreal, Quebec, in their feature documentary film on the Doukhobors which is scheduled for release in the fall 2002. Briar Patch Productions, Vancouver, in their WTN television documentary series 'Through Her Eyes', May 10, 2001. Sierra Films, London, England.
   
   
2. 1999: Assisted the Slavic Research Committee in organizing the International Conference on the Doukhobors, Ottawa University, 22-24 October.
   
   
3. Producer of Conversations with Canadian Doukhobors on Hi8 video tape (1992-1999). Associate Curator of the Spirit Wrestlers Exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (with preparatory work beginning in 1989 to its opening in January 1996). A resident Doukhobor ethnographer, anthropologist, and photographer of the Doukhobor movement since the early 1950s.
   
   
4. At the 1995 Doukhobor Centennial, organized and co-chaired a Round Table session on the Doukhobors which looked at the past, present, and the future of the Spirit Wrestlers / Doukhobor movement. In addition, served as one of the initiators, organizers and consultants for the Canadian Doukhobor Centennial Coordinating Committee which commemorated in 1995 the Burning of Arms events in Tsarist Russia as well as being the first mass organized act of protest against the institution of militarism and war; and in 1999 commemorated the coming of 7,500 Doukhobors to Canada in 1899.
   
   
5. In the early 1980s coordinated and organized futures workshops at Grindstone Island, Ontario which looked at the big issues of international relations, national structures, and the family. The project, lasting several years, led to bridge-building efforts between high schools in Canada and Russia. In September 1986 participated as organizer and a resource person in a session on East-West Images: Looking at Understanding and Building for Peace. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, assisted the Canadian Quaker Youth Exchange with Russian youth.
   
   
6. Served as accredited Photojournalist at the 22nd World Olympics in Moscow, USSR in 1980 during the Cold War when it was not popular to cross boundaries to the other side. As part of this visit, was chosen as one of three individuals who officially symbolized the solidarity and creativity of Russian people around the world.
   
   
7. Editor and Publisher of the first English-language Doukhobor journal The Inquirer in Canada 1953 to 1958 under the banner 'an inquiring approach to social problems'. The openness and breadth of this illustrated monthly set a new trend in Doukhobor writing and publishing. Later wrote articles for the short-lived Doukhobor journal Mir. Then continued to write illustrated articles for the existing Doukhobor journal Iskra. While coming from an independent Doukhobor background, he worked easily with the USCC mainstream group as well as the zealot members of the wider community.
   
   
8. President of the Saskatoon Doukhobor Student Group (1954 to 1958) which organized many cultural and intellectual events including a youth choir, panel discussions with other religious and ethnic groups, a play on 'A Man and His Conscience' (which toured western Canada in 1957), and various community discussions on issues that intrigued and troubled Doukhobor youth in the rapidly changing environment.
   
   
9. Planned and coordinated the First International Intergroup Symposium featuring Doukhobor, Mennonite, Molokan, and Quaker Experiences, held at Castlegar, B.C., June 25-28, 1982. The event attracted more than 900 people from across North America, Europe and the USSR, mostly representing the traditional peace groups. This was the first time that these groups got together in their 300-year-plus history to discuss not only the important issue of peace, but also to look at how they can best preserve their cultural heritage as well as fully participate in the wider society.
   
   
10. Was presenter at the Second International Conference on Nonverbal Behavior, An International Perspective, Toronto, Ontario, 17 May, 1983. Organized a Workshop on Utilizing the Wisdom of Anthropologists in East-West Relations at a 1985 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Montreal.
    
    
11. Interviewer for Community TV at the World Youth-Peace Through Communications Conference, Castlegar, B.C. 27-31 August 1985. As interpreter, photographer, and presenter, led four top Soviet authors on a Reading Tour of Western Canada in March 1989.
    
    
12. Organized and escorted several special interest tours to the Soviet Union, including visits to the Russian Doukhobor villages. These visits have served to reestablish ties between the peoples of the west and the east. In continuing this bridge-building effort, in 1995, invited to Canada a Russian-Doukhobor artist Volodia Gubanov as guest of his family during the Centennial of the group; in four months the artist was able to sketch some 40 portraits of Doukhobors.
    
    
13. Participated in two international ethnographic expeditions with Soviet scholars — one in Kazan, USSR (1988), the other one across North America (1990) with a focus on the Doukhobors of Western Canada and the USA. The latter served as a benchmark in the systematic study of the Doukhobors through the century; a similar systematic study was done in the 1970s by the Author.
    
    
14. Donated 55 meters of research papers, correspondence, photographs, and audio tapes on the Doukhobors, Canadian Indians, pacifism, and rural development to the Saskatchewan Archives Board in Saskatoon. Donated in 1994, this "major collection" was processed in time for the Doukhobor Centennials of 1995 and 1999.
    
    
15. Organized a double panel discussion at the Canadian Learned Societies in Calgary, Alberta (June 10, 1994) on 'One Hundred Years of Doukhobors in Retrospect' followed by a 'Cultural Happening'.
    
    
16. Co-founder of the Spirit Wrestlers Associates (with Larry A. Ewashen) which is preparing a number of books on the Doukhobors as a celebration of their history and contribution to a peaceful and humane society. One of the implicit tasks of the series is to dispel some of the misconceptions of the movement largely perpetrated for almost a century by an insensitive media. In June 1994, has designed and published a trilingual two-coloured poster (18" by 15") which was used to launch the Doukhobor Centennial; also produced a greeting card and post card, using the same motif.
    

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