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Article: Red Priests: Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1946.(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2004
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Red Priests: Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1945. By Edward E. Roslof. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. xvii + 259 pp. $45.00 cloth.
Red Priests is an excellent examination of one aspect of the internal politics of the Russian Orthodox Church that has not received much attention from historians: that of those priests who tried to resolve Orthodoxy and Bolshevism and ended up earning the mistrust and animosity of both fellow Orthodox and the Bolshevik government. The Renovationist movement emerged out of the church reform movement and the sobors (councils) of 1905 and 1917. After the dreadful famine of 1921-22, some church ...