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Volume 25, 2007
Foreword: the editor
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Cover Illustration: “The Historic Doukhobor 1895 Arms Burning,” black and white rendition of water colour painting by William Perehudoff, Saskatoon. “On Easter 1895 in Transcaucasia [between the Caspian and Black Seas] Matvey Lebedev and ten other Doukhobors threw down their guns while training in a local reserve battalion. They said that war and moral behaviour are incompatible. The result was the dissidents were sent to a disciplinary battalion and exiled along with sixty other young men in active service who followed their example….[At] midnight June 28-29, 1895…7000 Doukhobors [followed and] simultaneously set ablaze their rifles, pistols and swords in the first mass protest in history against war and militarism.” Text quoted from www.spirit-wrestlers.com; accessed 30 March 2007. This painting was first used in Koozma J. Tarasoff’s Pictorial History of the Doukhobors (Saskatoon: Prairie Books Division, Modern Press, 1969). Used and altered from the original with permission from Koozma J. Tarasoff, who presented a paper on Canadian Doukhobor war resisters at the ‘War and the Conscientious Objector’ History Conference, University of Winnipeg, 20 and 21 October 2006.