Dannaya monografiya yavlyaetsya pervoy poslerevolyutsionnoy rabotoy po issledovaniyu fenomena rossiyskogo traditsionnogo protestantizma na Yuge Rossiyskoy imperii v XIX - nachale XXv. Predmetom issledovaniya avtora vystupayut istoricheskie yavleniya i protsessy, proiskhodivshie v Evangelichesko-lyuteranskoy tserkvi, menonitskikh i shtundistskikh (baptistskikh) obshchinakh v ukazannye khronologicheskie ramki, vliyavshie na sotsial"no-ekonomicheskoe razvitie krest"yanskikh protestantskikh obshchin Yuga Rossii, raskryvayushchie sushchnost" gosudarstvenno-pravovykh i konfessional"nykh otnosheniy, a takzhe printsipy veroispovednoy politiki pravitel"stva i mestnykh vlastey po otnosheniyu k traditsionnym protestantskim ispovedaniyam. Monografiya rasschitana na studentov, aspirantov, spetsialistov-religiovedov, istorikov, sotsiologov. Takzhe kniga mozhet byt" adresovana shirokomu krugu chitateley, interesuyushchikhsya istoriey khristianskikh denominatsiy.