The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948

Kalkandjieva, Daniela

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“…The program of the conference planned to discuss the attitude of the Orthodox Church towards the ecumenical movement, but above all to discuss the role of the papacy as an anti-democratic and even pro-fascist institution, collaborating with forces threatening world peace. 8 In Grigory Karpov's letter to Stalin (March 15, 1945), there was a belief that the unequivocal protest expressed at the conference against the Vatican's activities would lead to its isolation and undermine the authority of the Pope. 9 In order to give the conference an all-Christian status, it was intended to invite the heads of the Orthodox churches of Serbia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Finland and the Eastern Orthodox churches, but also the representatives of the Anglican and Old Catholic churches and the American Methodists.…”

Section: The Idea Of a Moscow Vaticanmentioning

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Balkan Orthodox Churches in Soviet Union policy (in the first years after the Second World War)

Czekalski

2023

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The aim of the article is to present the concept and actions taken by the Soviet diplomacy and the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church to subjugate the Orthodox communities in the communist Balkan countries. The mechanism of the subjugation of the Balkan churches has been included into a comparative perspective and integrated into the broader concept of the Moscow Patriarchate towards gaining a leading role in the Orthodox world in the first years after the end of the Second World War. The process of dependency and its effects are reflected in diplomatic documents, but also in those produced by the Orthodox Churches themselves. The key element for gaining central position in the Orthodox world by Moscow was the organisation of anniversary celebrations and conferences to integrate the community and to involve it in the implementation of plans towards Soviet political domination. The results of these efforts were very limited in relation to ambitions outlined by the leadership of the Soviet state, revealing differing positions of the major patriarchates, as well as a real strength of authority and prestige that the Ecumenical Patriarchate invariably enjoyed.

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Balkan Orthodox Churches in Soviet Union policy (in the first years after the Second World War)

Czekalski

2023

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“…In this article, we are specifically interested in the historical memory building by the Church. As far as historical memory is concerned, multiple scholars explore the way through which the Church has turned from a mere tool in the hands of the State, as it was during Stalin's exploitation of the Church in WW II (see, for instance, Kalkandjieva 2015), into an independent actor; or from a “suppressed institution” into one “suppressing other religious bodies by discouraging religious pluralism and enjoying state-sanctioned privileges in a secular country” (Knox 2005, 1). Some shed light on the ways the Church imbues historical sites such as the Gulag with religious symbolism or how the murdered Tsar Nicholas II is used in connecting historical memory with the Church (Bogumił, Moran, and Harrowell 2015).…”

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The Patriotic Turn in Russia: Political Convergence of the Russian Orthodox Church and the State?

Shakhanova

Kratochvíl

2020

Politics and Religion

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Following two decades of a state-supported patriotic campaign, the Russian Orthodox Church has dramatically increased its presence in the public sphere: in the Armed Forces, in public schools and universities, and even in retirement houses and prisons. The Church's recent activities seem to have no territorial limits: they reach up to the space station “Mir” and the Russian Antarctic Station, as well as the (Russian) Orthodox believers in 62 states. Using a critical discourse analysis of the speeches of top Church leaders as our main methodological tool, our research explores the Church's policies on patriotism and patriotic education, its re-interpretation of historical memory, and the role of the Church in Russian politics. We try to show that while the Church's agenda and approach to politics are idiosyncratic, the Church has become a key actor with an increasingly important political role.

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The Russian Orthodox Church and Its Communist Past

Stan

2021

Churches, Memory and Justice in Post-Communism

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The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948

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Balkan Orthodox Churches in Soviet Union policy (in the first years after the Second World War)

Balkan Orthodox Churches in Soviet Union policy (in the first years after the Second World War)

The Patriotic Turn in Russia: Political Convergence of the Russian Orthodox Church and the State?

The Russian Orthodox Church and Its Communist Past

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