Russian Orthodoxy Resurgentis the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's...
Secondly, they were very much afraid, and some feel like this up till now, of that declaration by Sergius I”.The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia was formed by exiled believers who didn’t accept communism following the revolution of 1917 and a civil war in Russia. The church ...
The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism The author's own fascination with the nineteenth century British adventurers in "Russian Turkestan", officers, travellers and writers, colours everything. Journey to Kiva ...
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgentis the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's...
Leskov's major works, many of which continue to be published in modern versions, were written during this time. A number of his later works were banned because of their satirical treatment of the Russian Orthodox Church and its functionaries. Leskov died on 5 March 1895, aged 64, and was...
Upon returning to Russia, Putin held an administrative position at the University of Leningrad, and after the fall of communism in 1991, he became an adviser to liberal politician Anatoly Sobchak. When Sobchak was elected mayor of Leningrad later that year, Putin became his head of external rela...
After another visit abroad in 1907 he moved to Moscow, where he joined the Russian Orthodox Church. He was somewhat of a nonconformist, and he attacked the church’s Holy Synod in an article and was tried for it in 1914. Escaping sentence after his case was dropped at the outbreak of ...
Beglopopovtsy also Beglopopovtsy (Russian: беглопоповцы, translated as "runaway priests") (historical) A denomination of the Old Believers which included priests who had deserted the Russian Orthodox Church during the Raskol....
Possessing an impeccable artistic pedigree, actor-writer-director Nikita Mikhalkov prospered during the Soviet era and survived the collapse of Communism, becoming his country's best-known and successful film director, not to mention a leading candidate to succeed Boris Yeltsin as President of Russia....
Religiously, the languages of Romania and Russia are associated with Orthodox Churches in doctrinal communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. The exception to this would be the Church of the Ukraine, which became affiliated with Catholicism during the long period of Lithuanian and Polis...