Church and State in Russia : The Last Years of the Empire 1900-1917 / John Shelton Curtiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Curtiss, John Shelton, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1940]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Describes the relations between Orthodoxy and Autocracy, the economic position of the church, and religious education in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

PART I. A Thousand Years of Church and State

I. An Outline of Russian Church History to the Year 1900; Moscow as "the Third Rome"

PART II. The Church at the Beginning Of the Twentieth Century

II. The Russian Church as a State Institution at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

III. The Economic Position of the Church

IV. Religious Education and Indoctrination: Monopolies of the Orthodox Church

PART III. Liberalism and Conservatism During the Revolution of 1905

V. A Free Church in a Free State?

VI. "God Is High Above and the Tsar Is Far Away"

PART IV. The Interval between Revolutions 1908-17

VII. The Years of Neglected Opportunity

VIII. Plus Ça Change

IX. The Sway of Rasputin

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231879828

0231879822

OCLC:

654582932