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100 1 $aDavis, Nathaniel,$d1925-2011.
245 12 $aA long walk to church :$ba contemporary history of Russian orthodoxy /$cNathaniel Davis.
264 1 $aBoulder, Colorado :$bWestview Press,$c1995.
264 4 $c©1995
300 $axxiii, 381 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 339-360) and index.
505 0 $aFrom the Bolshevik Revolution to World War II -- The turnaround -- Stalin's last years and the early Khrushchev period -- Khrushchev's attack -- The period of stagnation -- The millennium -- Squalls and tempests -- Accusations and schisms -- Russian Orthodox clergy -- Illegal and underground Orthodox religion -- Monks, nuns, and convents -- Theological education -- Publications and finances -- The laity -- Conclusion.
520 1 $a"Despite its problems, the Russian Orthodox Church manifests a luminous faith. It has achieved great political influence and is Russia's most important vehicle for spiritual and ethical renewal. Nevertheless, it is still a long walk to church in that tormented land."--BOOK JACKET. "Making use of the formerly secret archives of the Soviet government, Nathaniel Davis offers the first complete account of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church from the Bolshevik revolution to the present. Twice in the past sixty years, the church hung on the brink of institutional extinction. In 1939, only four bishops and a few score widely scattered priests were still functioning openly in the entire Soviet Union. Stalin could have arrested them all in a single night. Ironically, Hitler's invasion and Stalin's reaction to it rescued the church - parishes reopened, new clergy and bishops were consecrated, a patriarch was elected, and seminaries and convents were reinstituted."--BOOK JACKET. "After the war, Stalin reverted to his earlier policies of repression; after his death, Khrushchev resumed the onslaught against religion. Davis reveals the full scope of Stalin's last assault, the limited extent of the reprieve, and the relative continuity of policy in those brutal years of repression. Under Brezhnev, the erosion of church strength was greater than the world has been told, and those decades ushered in the church's second great crisis of survival. One could travel a thousand kilometers on the Trans-Siberian railway without coming to a single functioning church. It was none too soon when the Soviet government changed policy in anticipation of Russia's Millennium of Christian Conversion."--BOOK JACKET. "Davis shows that the collapse of communism and the fragmentation of the Soviet empire have created a challenging mixture of opportunity and trouble for Russian Orthodoxy. Thousands of half-destroyed churches have been returned to believers who do not have the money to restore them. Thousands of parishes are still without priests. Ukraine has fallen into schism, with three feuding orthodox factions struggling against each other and facing a resurgent Greek Catholic community."--BOOK JACKET. "Across Russia, the leaders of the Orthodox Church bemoan a "spiritual vacuum" into which moneyed Protestant evangelists, Catholic proselytizers, Eastern mystics, and even Satanists and telesorcerers rush to fill the void. Moreover, church leaders' past collaboration with the Communist regime has bedeviled the hierarchs as they struggle to assert moral authority in a society anxious for certitude. Davis concludes that the legacy of seventy-five years of communism has left the church beset with problems as it faces the challenges of a new Russia."--Jacket.
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