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The Russian Orthodox Church versus the State: The Josephite Movement, 1927-1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Mikhail V. Shkarovskii*
Affiliation:
St. Petersburg Research Center of the society "Memorial" and senior archivist at the Central State Archives of St. Petersburg

Extract

Russia is embarking upon a new path of historical development. Today, as the country gradually liberates itself from the vestiges of a nondemocratic society, it seems especially propitious to trace the subordination in the 1920s and 1930s of Russia's most important social institutions to a nascent totalitarian regime. The Russian Orthodox Church belongs on the list of such institutions. During its long history it frequently exerted a stabilizing, consolidating effect on the nation, especially during times of national crisis; even during the civil war it maintained a neutral position.

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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1995

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