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| | Ukrainian Evangelical Peasants as"Cultural Pioneers"of Late Imperial Russia, by Sergei Zhuk |
 | | By developing a culture of reading and practical schooling, the Stundists, who comprised a significant part of rural population in the provinces of Kherson and Kiev by 1900, contributed to modernization of the Ukrainian countryside and to the formation of “human capital” in the sense of skills, education, and various rational social practices. |
 | | During the 1880s Stundism reached the provinces of Tavrida, Ekaterinoslav, Poltava, Kharkov, Chernigov, Volynia and Podolia (there were 2,956 dissidents in the province of Kherson in 1886, 2,006 in the province of Kiev in 1884, 300 in the province of Ekaterinoslav). |
 | | The number of Stundists had grown from 200 in 1872 to 5,002 in 1890 in Kiev province, from 20 in 1862 to 4,648 in 1890 in Kherson province, from 300 in 1888 to 1,000 in 1897 in Ekaterinoslav province. |
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