title: Imperial Russia as a Failed State: The Role of Orthodox Church
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metadata.value: Freeze, Gregory L.
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metadata.value: 2023-06-26T20:54:27Z
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metadata.value: 2023-06-26T20:54:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Freeze G. L. Imperial Russia as a Failed State: The Role of Orthodox Church. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 1, рp. 67–81. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.104
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41680
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metadata.value: The purpose of this article is to assess the role of the Orthodox Church during the prelude to
  the February Revolution. Recent historiography on the Great War in Western scholarship has
  foregrounded the role of the Churches, Protestant and Catholic, in sustaining popular support
  for a war that entailed unprecedented death, suffering, and hardship. That new research,
  seeking to explain the “endurance problem” (Durchhaltsproblem), point to the Churches in
  the West as the pillar of the existing regimes right to the very end of the war and as an effective
  instrument in mobilizing support and patriotism to defend each country’s “civilization”.
  Hence, no less important than brilliant military plans and effective governance, the Churches
  provided critical support and raised morale of both troops and civilians. Such was not the
  case in Russia. With few resources at its disposal, the Orthodox Church provided initial but
  ephemeral support. As is shown here, the Church was not only unable but unwilling to embrace
  the ancient regime: against a background of general war weariness, the Church elites,
  parish clergy, and ordinary parishioners were increasingly determined to pursue their own
  interests, not those of the state. By February 1917 the Church did not condemn but welcomed
  the overthrow of the monarchy that ultimately led to the Bolshevik seizure of power and years
  of brutal civil war. The monograph by I. V. Potkina “On the eve of the catastrophe. The state
  and the economy in Russia in 1914–1917” has many positive elements, but it is important —
  given recent historiography, which foregrounds the role of Churches and religion in sustaining
  society’s willingness to endure the Great War — to pay attention to the role of the Russian
  Orthodox Church.
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Orthodox Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War I
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: churches
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Imperial Russia as a Failed State: The Role of Orthodox Church
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metadata.value: Article
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