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Keeping the Faith - Russian Orthodox Monasticism in the Soviet Union, 1917-1939 (Hardcover, New)
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Keeping the Faith - Russian Orthodox Monasticism in the Soviet Union, 1917-1939 (Hardcover, New)
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In "Keeping the Faith, Jennifer jean Wynot presents a clear and
concise history of the trials and evolution of Russian Orthodox
monasteries and convents and the important roles they have played
in Russian culture, both spiritually and politically, from the
abortive reforms of 1905 to the Stalinist purges of the 1930s. She
shows how, throughout the Soviet period, Orthodox monks and nuns
continued to provide spiritual strength to the people, in spite of
severe persecution, and despite the ambivalent relationship the
Russian state has had toward the . Russian church since the reign
of Ivan the Terrible. Focusing her study on two provinces, Smolensk
and Moscow, Wynot describes the Soviet oppression and the
clandestine struggles of the monks and nuns to uphold the
traditions of monasticism and Orthodoxy. Their success against
heavy odds enabled them to provide a counterculture to the Soviet
regime. Indeed, of all the pre- 1917 institutions, the Orthodox
Church proved the most resilient. Why and how it managed to
persevere despite the enormous hostility against it is a topic that
continues to fascinate both the general public and historians.
Based on previously unavailable Russian archival sources as well as
written memoirs and interviews with surviving monks and nuns, Wynot
analyzes the monasteries' adaptation to the Bolshevik regime. She
challenges standard Western assumptions that Communism effectively
killed the Orthodox Church in Russia. She shows that in fact, the
role of monks and nuns in Orthodox monasteries and convents is
crucial, and that they are largely responsible for the continuation
of Orthodoxy in Russia following the Bolshevik revolution. "Keeping
the Faith offers a newperspective that will be of interest to
students of Russian history and Communism, as well as scholars of
church state relations.
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