ADAPTABILITY AS A SURVIVAL STRATEGY UNDER COMMUNISM: RECONSIDERING THE APPROACH OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH Cover Image

ADAPTABILITY AS A SURVIVAL STRATEGY UNDER COMMUNISM: RECONSIDERING THE APPROACH OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
ADAPTABILITY AS A SURVIVAL STRATEGY UNDER COMMUNISM: RECONSIDERING THE APPROACH OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Author(s): Natalia Shlikhta
Subject(s): Political history, Politics and religion, Evaluation research, History of Communism, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Latvijas Universitātes Filozofijas un socioloģijas institūts
Keywords: Russian Orthodox Church; Soviet period; Stalinism; Khrushchev’s antireligious campaign; the Ukrainian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church;

Summary/Abstract: Adaptability is a broad and crucial topic for the Soviet-period history of the Russian Orthodox Church that has not received the scholarly attention that it merits. An important reason for this scholarly neglect is in the highly negative connotation of the very concept, as it was not easy and arguably not right for the Church to adapt to Soviet sociopolitical circumstances. Such a view was formed back in the Soviet era under a combined influence of church opposition’s and Soviet officials’ critique.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 217-241
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: English