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Examines the religious sect that calls themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, otherwise known as Shakers, and examines their philosophy, practice, and work.

Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.

Examines a number of subcultures that exist within the United States and their histories and cultural teachings, such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Nation of Islam, gypsies, and the Mormons.

Describes daily life in an Israeli commune and provides a history of the kibbutz movement.

Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.

Avramik, a young Holocaust survivor, has difficulties adjusting to life on a kibbutz in the days before the first Arab-Israeli War.

Traces the history and development of many kinds of communes in the United States from frontier days to the present.

Discusses the philosophy, purpose, and organization of four communal societies-- the Shakers, the Rappites, the Perfectionists of the Oneida Community, and the Society of Brothers.

A reprint of an 1875 study of American communitarian societies of the nineteenth century, such as the Separatists of Zoar and the Shakers, discussing the history of each community, its guiding philosophy, social habits and cutoms, business and administration, and details of everyday life.

Explores the daily lives of Amish teens and discusses how and why they choose to live as they do. Includes full-color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.