This article discusses the debate over teaching Orthodoxy in Russia's state classrooms following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Under the Soviet regime, citizens were deprived of religious knowledge and have fought, since 1991, to revive sacred traditions. On the other hand, the new ...
s recent interest in uplifting the status of Orthodox church as a pivotal factor in the state and beyond that. Most importantly the position of the Orthodox church has grown rapidly during Putin's administration as a solacing factor to fill the gap that emerged from the fall of Soviet Union...
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 there has been an astonishing development of religion in Eastern Europe. In contrast to the predominant atheist doctrine in Soviet times, a massive religious renaissance has taken root since the early 1990s. The increasing influence of religion is esp...
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 furthered the spiritual progress, and in 2000 Tsar Nicholas II, the Russian emperor who had been murdered by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution of 1917, and members of his family were canonized by the church. The Russian Revolution of 1917 ...
In the later 1950s and early 1960s, Khrushchev won the battle to convert the rest of the Soviet leadership to the view that any further progress for the Soviet Union was contingent on a significant rise in agricultural production and that this in turn was dependent upon improving the standard...
Eastern Orthodoxy - Liturgy, Sacraments, Prayer: By its theological richness, spiritual significance, and variety, the worship of the Orthodox church represents one of the most significant factors in the church’s continuity and identity. It helps to acc
He served as Artistic Director and Manager of the Moscow State University Symphony Orchestra and Academic Choir and has conducted in the Soviet Union, West Germany and Poland. He established a reputation during the Communist era for innovative programming in spite of the political risks involved. ...
President George Bush tendered cheery congratulations to Mikhail Gorbachev for abandoning the Union's Soviet Union's old orthodoxy when he journeyed to Moscow, Russia, in July 1991. The author concludes, however, that the Cold War may be over, but the old orthodoxy is alive and well in ...
first half of the twentieth century and the astonishing U-turn in the attitude of the Soviet Union's leaders towards the church. In the years after 1917 the Bolsheviks' anti-religious policies, the loss of the former western territories of the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union's ...
democracies except perhaps in periods ofall-out war. However, as Edward Shils pointed out in an article inEncounterfor October 1961, the "modernity" of the Soviet Unionis a "tyrannically deformed manifestation of potentialities which areinherent in the process of modernization," since its ...