Church, Nation and State in Russia and Ukraine

1. Front Matter

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2. The Formation of Modern Ukrainian Religious Culture: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

   • Frank E. Sysyn

   Pages 1-22

3. The Spirituality of the Vyg Fathers

   • Robert O. Crummey

   Pages 23-37

4. The Authority of Holiness: Women Ascetics and Spiritual Elders in Nineteenth-century Russia

   • Brenda Meehan-Waters

   Pages 38-51

5. The Greek Catholic Church in Nineteenth-century Galicia

   • John-Paul Himka

   Pages 52-64

6. Printing the Bible in the Reign of Alexander I: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Imperial Russian Bible Society

   • Stephen K. Batalden

   Pages 65-78

7. Christianity, the Service Ethic and Decembrist Thought

   • Franklin A. Walker

   Pages 79-95

8. The Role of the Orthodox Missionary in the Altai: Archimandrite Makarii and V. I. Verbitskii

   • David N. Collins

   Pages 96-107

9. Theological Liberalism and Church Reform in Imperial Russia

   • Paul Valliere

   Pages 108-130

10. Alexander Kireev and Theological Controversy in the Russian Orthodox Church, 1890–1910

    • John D. Basil

    Pages 131-147

11. Leo Tolstoy, a Church Critic Influenced by Orthodox Thought

    • Pål Kolstϕ

    Pages 148-166

12. The Church’s Social Role in St Petersburg, 1880–1914

    • Simon Dixon

    Pages 167-192

13. The Church Schools and Seminaries in the Russian Revolution of 1905–06

    • John D. Morison

    Pages 193-209

14. The Political Philosophy of the Russian Orthodox Episcopate in the Soviet Period

    • Michael A. Meerson

    Pages 210-227

15. The Rise of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, 1919–22

    • Bohdan R. Bociurkiw

    Pages 228-249

16. The Renovationist Coup: Personalities and Programmes

    • Philip Walters

    Pages 250-270

17. The Survival of the Russian Orthodox Church in her Millennial Century: Faith as Martyria in an Atheistic State

    • Dimitry V. Pospielovsky

    Pages 271-290

18. Are the Furov Reports Authentic?

    • Raymond Oppenheim

    Pages 291-311

19. Orthodoxy and Russian Nationalism in the USSR, 1917–88

    • Peter J. S. Duncan

    Pages 312-332

20. Religious Currents in Contemporary Soviet Literature and Film

    • John B. Dunlop

    Pages 333-348

The opportunities opened up by the Gorbachev reforms have shown that religion is one of the most significant dynamic forces in Soviet society. Yet few scholars have attempted to relate the study of churches and religious movements in recent centuries to the politics and culture of the Soviet Union. To remedy this deficiency, leading western experts on Christianity in the Eastern Slav lands gathered at a conference in London on the occasion of the millennium of the baptism of Rus'. Their papers present unexpected and fascinating insights into an under-rated but crucial aspect of the life of the Soviet peoples.

• Christianity
• nation
• religion
• revolution
• Russia
• Soviet Union
• Ukraine
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

• School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, UK

  Geoffrey A. Hosking

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