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

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

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