«CHURCH REVOLUTION» 1917: PROVINCIAL SOCIETY AND THE INTO-CHURCH LIFE

«CHURCH REVOLUTION» 1917: PROVINCIAL SOCIETY AND THE INTO-CHURCH LIFE

Authors

  • Vl. Kail’ Maksim

Keywords:

revolution, Orthodoxy, Russian Orthodox Church, diocesan administra-tion, hierarchy, «revolutionization», society, Church life.

Abstract

The article is devoted to historical case – stories misevaluating period of 1917 in the history of the Smolensk Orthodox diocese. The chosen prob-lem and its main themes – the history of the diocesan Congress of clergy and laity and the history of the appointment and dismissal of bishops considered in the broad historiographical and historical context. The pur-pose of this focus review is to problematize the local, the case study ap-proach to examine the «big historical events» in the problem field of the modern history of Orthodoxy.

Published

2023-05-16
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