Religion and the Russian Revolution

Conflicts, Encounters, and Transformations

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvFrancesca Silano,Alexander Agadjanian,Scott M. Kenworthy,Nadieszda Kizenko

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On the eve of World War I, the Russian Empire was among the most diverse in the world, and religious identity was the single most important factor for determining a subject's relation to the imperial state. The revolutions of 1917 overturned the Empire's religious world. The Provisional Government sought to disentangle the state from its long-standing ties to the Orthodox Church; minority religious groups looked forward to greater freedom of practice; and, with the Communist Revolution of October 1917, Bolshevik anti-religious activists looked to bring about the death of God and the birth of the New Soviet Person.Drawing on archives, periodicals, ego-documents, visual imagery, and other key sources, Religion and the Russian Revolution examines not only how diverse religious groups and individual actors were affected by revolutionary politics, but also the critical role religious discourses and practices played in shaping revolutionary imagery and action. The chapters dive into the rich and varied landscape of personal and collective religious experiences before, during, and after the 1917 Revolutions. In so doing, the contributions gathered in this volume document perceptions of violence, everyday religious practices, visual imaginaries, and new definitions of "religion" and "the sacred" across Russia.By rethinking the religious implications and consequences of this radical era, Religion and the Russian Revolution forcefully illustrates that the Revolutions of 1917 cannot be fully understood without exploring the ways in which the sacred and the revolutionary overlapped and informed each other.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-04
Mått156 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt590 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor418
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253076168

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Francesca Silano is Assistant Professor of History at Providence College.Alexander Agadjanian is a Leading Research Fellow at Yerevan State University. He is author of Turns of Faith, Search for Meaning: Orthodox Christianity and Post-Soviet Experience and (with Scott M. Kenworthy) of Understanding World Christianity: Russia.Scott M. Kenworthy is Professor of Comparative Religion at Miami University of Ohio. He is author of The People's Patriarch: Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia and The Heart of Russia: Trinity-Sergius, Monasticism, and Society After 1825.Nadieszda Kizenko is Professor of History at the University at Albany. She is author of Good for the Souls: A History of Confession in the Russian Empire and A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Religion and Revolution in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, by Francesca SilanoPart 1: Before the Revolution1. "Can a Christian Be a Socialist?": The (Ir)reconcilability of Christianity and Socialism in Revolutionary Russia, by Alexandra Kardos2. Churching Russian History: Orthodoxy in the Great War and Revolution, by Gregory L. Freeze3. Charismatic Orthodoxy in Revolutionary Ukraine and Russia: Stefan (Vasilii Karpovich Podgornyi) and His Followers, 1832–1960, by J. Eugene ClayPart 2: The Fall of the Romanovs4. The Death of White Tara: How Russia's Buddhists Responded to the Collapse of the Romanov Dynasty, by Nikolay Tsyrempilov5. Confession and Penance in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine, by Nadieszda Kizenko6. The "Parish Revolution" of 1917 in Russia: Laity, Clergy, and Church Authorities in the Struggle for Power in the Orthodox Parish Between March 1917 and April 1918, by Aleksey BeglovPart 3: Bolshevism and the New Person7. God-Building and Authoritarianism: A Discussion of Bolshevism and Religion, by Daniela Steila8. "Wings of Revolution," by Mark D. Steinberg9. Anti-Religious Propaganda and Cultural Cleansing: The Bolshevik Art of Spiritual Warfare, 1922–25, by Vera Shevzov10. "Dying Is Easy in Russia Now—Getting Buried, on the Other Hand, Is Very Complicated": The 1918 Funeral Reforms and Their Consequences, by Anna Sokolova11. Canon Law in a Bolshevik Courtroom: The Russian Revolution as an Orthodox Legal Revolution, by Francesca SilanoPart 4: Personal Responses to Revolution12. From Freedom to Apocalypse: Changing Perceptions of Revolution in Muslim Ego-Documents, by Alfrid Bustanov13. Russian Orthodox Women in Unorthodox Times: Patterns of Female Agency and Authority in the Revolutionary Era, 1917–27, by Page HerrlingerPart 5: The Remnant: Keeping the Community14. Searching for an Identity: Mennonites in Revolutionary Ukraine, by Aileen Friesen15. Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn: The Making of a Jewish Religious Leader in the Soviet Union, by David E. FishmanAfterword: Religion and the Russian Revolution: Ongoing Reinvention, by Alexander AgadjanianIndex

"The moderate, open-minded, yet disciplined approach to the subject matter [this volume takes] is one of the virtues of this volume and perhaps its chief contribution to the scholarship in both history and religious studies."—Paul Valliere, author of Modern Russian Theology: Bukharev, Soloviev, Bulgakov "Bringing together an impressive array of scholars, this volume explores the complicated intersection of religion and revolution in the decades surrounding the Bolshevik Revolution, with a particular focus on the contested meaning of religion in an era of improvisation, possibility, upheaval, war, destruction, and persecution. Perhaps the greatest takeaway from this engaging volume is a renewed appreciation of just how unstable the terms "religion" and "revolution" are, a fact made anew through the prism of a revolution in which religion was front and center."—Patrick Michelson, author of Beyond the Monastery Walls: The Ascetic Revolution in Russian Orthodox Thought, 1814–1914