title: Church and State before and after the Russian Revolution of 1917
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metadata.value: Mironov, Boris N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-06-29T10:06:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-06-29T10:06:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Mironov B. N. Church and State before and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 2, рp. 646–667.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.219
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/18379
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article discusses the collective monograph “1917: revolution, state, society and the
  Church” written by well-known Russian historians. According to the author of this review, the
  team prepared an interesting and useful study. Its characteristic features are: interdisciplinarity,
  relevance, juxtaposition of the past with the present, good sources, high quality texts, good
  design. A serious drawback of the book is the lack of historiography. In all chapters there is
  no evaluation of the contributions made by the predecessors. The absence of a critical analysis
  of the existing literature on the issues studied in the monograph does not enable not only
  the readers but also the authors themselves to adequately assess the meaning and novelty of
  the study. This is especially distressing in those cases when different, sometimes opposing,
  points of view are expressed in the literature. For example, there have been expressed several
  opinions regarding the position of the episcopate and the clergy on the relationship between
  the Church and the state, the restoration of the patriarchate, the overthrow of the monarchy and
  the legitimization of the Provisional Government, the role of the Orthodox Church Council
  of 1917–1918. For a long time, and probably still, most Russian and foreign researchers have
  believed that during the synodal period the Russian Orthodox Church turned into a mute
  instrument in the hands of a secular state fulfilling its will submissively even if it was contrary
  to its spiritual duty and its corporate interests. Some authors of the collective monograph also
  adhere to this concept although a fundamentally different concept is expressed in foreign
  and Russian historiography (G. Freeze, M. A. Babkin, P. G. Rogozny, etc.). If the authors had
  defended their points of view in an open discussion and had critically evaluated the concepts
  of their opponents, the book would certainly have benefitted.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by grant No. 20-09-00353 from Russian Foundation for Basic Research
  “The disintegration of the Soviet Union in the human dimension: an interdisciplinary study”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian revolution of 1917
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: society
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Orthodox Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: late imperial Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet Union
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Church and State before and after the Russian Revolution of 1917
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metadata.value: Article
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