Meaning of voskresnik | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Sunday designated for community volunteer work, such as cleaning the streets, after the October Revolution in Russia.
   historical
2. Alternative letter-case form of voskresnik.
   alt-of
3. One who took part in this work.
   historical
4. A member of a Russian sect of Sunday observers.
   capitalized, often

Examples

“It is necessary to use such forms of sponsorship help as subbotniki and voskresniki [work without pay donated to the state on weekends], more intensively and rationally.”

“The activities of the committees also include the organization of unpaid work days (subbotniki and voskresniki) to build and repair schools, health care institutions, roads and other communal facilities.”

“In the Soviet era it was common for working people to be sent on voluntary work sessions on Saturday and Sunday (subbotniki and voskresniki) to carry out community work.”

“It was young boys and girls in their teens, through their vast organization, the Komsomol, who initiated the movement of the Voskresniki, or voluntary Sunday workers, which was tried out for the first time on Sunday, August 16, 1941.”

“During World War II, the KS and voskresniki (Sunday volunteers) are said to have inspired the war effort.”

“In one way and another, the people were now looking forward to a better future, to a renaissance of their city. They had earned it. It was this euphoria that brought the voskresniks in their thousands to help clear the parks and sort through the rubble, and which brought the crowds into the streets to cheer Samson on his way.”

“The Molokane split into Subbotniki (Saturday-observers) and Voskresniki (Sunday-observers). […] Within the Voskresniki, a group following Maksim Popov, a peasant of Samara, organized a colony practicing primitive communism, which did not last long.”

“The Subbotniki (Sabbatarians), for example, adhere to many Jewish observances and accept Jesus only as a prophet. In this, they differ from the predominant Voskresniki (Sunday observers).”

“The Dukhobors in turn gave rise to other sects whose members preserved in somewhat subdued form this radical spiritualism, including the Molokane (Milk Drinkers), Subbotniki (Saturday observers), Voskresniki (Sunday observers), and Pryguny (Jumpers).”

“According to Ia. V. Abramov, the chronicler of the Sunday school movement, the ninth section, attended predominantly by “Sunday people” (voskresniki), became a de facto congress on Sunday schools and “clarified many matters to the participants, as well as united and energized them.””

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