title: The Holy Synod of the russian orthodox church and the overthrow of the monarchy
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metadata.value: Babkin, Mikhail A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:33:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:33:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.value: Babkin M. A. The Holy Synod of the russian orthodox church and the overthrow of the monarchy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 522–544.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.306
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8444
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article discusses the attitude of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to the overthrow
  of the Russian monarchy in 1917. Sources are mainly drawn from liturgical books, which were
  fixed by the highest Church administration in March and April 1917. Corrections were made in respect
  of the Imperial Acts of 2 and 3 March — the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II from the Russian
  throne for himself and son — and the “conditional abdication” (pending the Constituent Assembly’s decision on the form of government in Russia) on the part of the Grand Duke (the uncrowned emperor?)
  Mikhail Alexandrovich. Other corrections were made in connection with the transfer of power to
  the Provisional Government.
  March 3, 1917, Russia faced a “historic forkˮ in its historical path: be it monarchy, (with a real
  chance to be constitutional, considering the vast social base supporting it) or be it a republic in one
  form or another. Before the actual abdication of the Romanov Dynasty had taken place, the Synod
  had essentially declared to have left the throne (“otsarstvovavshim”) and ordered instead of the prayers
  for the Royal power the creation of commemorations of the “right faithful Provisional governmentˮ.
  The legitimacy of regime change began to be inculcated into the socio-political consciousness of the
  orthodox congregation as well the origin of the power of the Provisional government as “superior” and
  the irreversibility of the revolutionary events themselves.
  The respective actions of the members of Synod are explained in the mainstream of historicaltheological
  problems of the “priesthood-kingdomˮ. The higher clergy sought to destroy, to overthrow
  the tsarist regime as its “charismatic competitorˮ to be the only power possessing divine nature, in
  order to prove its thesis that: “the priesthood is above the kingdomˮ, “the priesthood is eternal, divine
  and immutable, and the realm of the earthly changeable, transitory and temporaryˮ. Overall, in the
  period under review, the members of Synod acted as one of the component forces in the Russian
  liberation movement. Refs 58.
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 62; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: The Russian Orthodox Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Holy Synod
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Revolution of 1917
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Provisional government
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the correction of the liturgical books
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: liturgical titles
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the problem of “the priesthood of the kingdomˮ
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Holy Synod of the russian orthodox church and the overthrow of the monarchy
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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