Помещенные в книге работы впервые опубликованы:

Werth, Paul W. Baptism, Authority, and the Problem of Zakonnost’: The Induction of over 800 ‘Pagans’ into the Christian Faith // Slavic Review. 1997. Vol. 56. No. 3. P. 456–480.

Werth, Paul W. Arbiters of the Free Conscience: Confessional Categorization and Religious Transfer in Russia, 1905–1917 // Re-Bounding Identities in Russia and Ukraine / Ed. Blair Ruble, Dominique Arel, and Nancy Popson. Woodrow Wilson Institution Press, 2006. P. 181–207.

Werth, Paul W. Georgian Autocephaly and the Ethnic Fragmentation of Orthodoxy // Acta Slavica Iaponica. Sapporo, Japan: 2006. Vol. 23. P. 74–100.

Werth, Paul W. From ‘Pagan’ Muslims to ‘Baptized’ Communists: Religious Conversion and Ethnic Particularity in Russia’s Eastern Provinces // Comparative Studies in Society and History. 2000. Vol. 42. No. 3. P. 497–523.

Werth, Paul W. In the State’s Embrace? Civil Acts in an Imperial Order // Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2006. Vol. 7. No. 3. P. 433–458.

Werth, Paul W. Empire, Religious Freedom, and the Legal Regulation of ‘Mixed’ Marriage in Imperial Russia // Journal of Modern History. 2008. Vol. 80. No. 2 (June). P. 296–331.