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VIEWS OF THE POPULIST A. S. PRUGAVIN ON SECTS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2015. Issue 9 (162). P. 219-222

The article examines the views of populist A. Prugavin on the sectarianism as a part of the society in the Russian Empire in the last third of the XIX century. The research works of the author on these problems are analyzed. Classification of religious organizations in the Russian Empire is represented in these research works. The author considers that A. Prugavin came to a conclusion that the adherents of different sects could not be considered the alien elements in the Russian society. He believed that religious movements did not represent danger to the state in the Russian Empire.

Keywords: A. Prugavin, populism, sectarianism, religious communities, the Orthodox Church