voskresniki

Noun

voskresnik (plural voskresniks or voskresniki)

1. (historical) A Sunday designated for community volunteer work, such as cleaning the streets, after the October Revolution in Russia.
   • 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.1980 September 12, A[ugusts] E[duardovich] Voss, translated by Joint Publications Research Service, “Voss on Latvian Economy, Brezhnev Phone Conversation”, in USSR Report: Political and Sociological...
2. (historical) One who took part in this 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, 1941.1943 August, Madelin Blitzstein, “Youth Fights for Russia”, in Coburn Gilman, editor, Travel, volume 81, number 4, East Stroudsburg, Pa.: Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, page 11, column 1
3. (capitalized, often) A member of a Russian sect of Sunday observers.
   • 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.1968, Donald W[arren] Treadgold, “The Peasant and Religion”, in Wayne S[piro] Vucinich, editor, The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC...