Sergey L. Firsov

40 Years of Soviet Power: The Russian Orthodox Church Between Revolution and the Era of Khruschev’s Persecutions (Review for Monograph: A. ROCKUCHCHI, «Stalin and Patriarch: Orthodox Church and Soviet Power, 1917 – 1958». Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2016. – 584 s.)

Authors

Sergey L. Firsov

Keywords:

Patriarch, Russian Orthodox Church, revolution, Soviet power, I. V. Stalin, N. S. Khrushchev, Tikhon (Bellavin), Sergius (Stragorodskiy), Aleksey (Simanskiy).

Abstract

The review is devoted to the monograph of Professor of Rome University A. Roccucci, who studied Church-state relations in the Soviet State from the 1917 revolution to the era of the so-called "Khrushchev persecution" of the Russian Orthodox Church. It is said about the methodological techniques A. Roccucci considering Church-state relations in the context of the issue of "charisma" – a secular ruler’s and the Patriarch’s.

40 Years of Soviet Power: The Russian Orthodox Church Between Revolution and the Era of Khruschev’s Persecutions (Review for Monograph: A. ROCKUCHCHI, «Stalin and Patriarch: Orthodox Church and Soviet Power, 1917 – 1958». Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2016. – 584 s.)