Bibliographic record
Abstract
Spirit Wrestler is an historical novel narrated by Mikhail Mikhailovich Strelyaev. He was born in 1868 in a village in western Russia, the son of an atheist father and a Doukhobor mother. After the death of his parents, he lives the first half of his life in the southern Caucasus Mountains among his mother's people, the Doukhobors (or “Spirit-Wrestlers,” a religious sect). When the Doukhobor leader dies, the new leader, Peter Vasilievich Verigin, is exiled and, via messengers, takes them on an ever-intensifying journey toward strict fundamentalism, attracting government abuse. When the sect withdraws from military conscription and burns their arms, the government decimates their community through incarceration, exile, rape, and confiscation of their communal lands. Leo Tolstoy hears of their plight, arranges safe passage for them to Canada, and writes his final novel, Resurrection , in order to donate the proceeds to the Doukhobor emigration. Verigin is released from exile and returns to the others in Saskatchewan. The community begins to fracture, causing the rise of the Sons of Freedom, a sub-sect that opposes Verigin. Most of the Doukhobor lands are confiscated by the government because of disputes. A majority of the Doukhobors then move with Verigin to Brilliant, British Columbia. Life is good for a time, but the old fractures re-emerge and Verigin is killed under mysterious circumstances in 1924. The Doukhobor community begins a quick decline. The narrator is carried through this sequence of dramatic events—at first by living near a Doukhobor village, then by marrying a Doukhobor woman, and finally by becoming a part of their community—allowing the reader to glimpse what it was like to be a Doukhobor at this time. Throughout the novel he struggles with his own faith, just as the Doukhobors struggle with their communal sense of themselves and their ever-changing religion practices. In the end, he is haunted by the mysterious saga in which he played a consistent part, and he suggests that he could very well have been part of the demise of the Doukhobors, possibly even the murderer of Verigin himself.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".