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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Curtiss, John Shelton,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1940]; ©1940
• Year of Publication: 1940
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of 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