Апология православного духовенства в тюремных записках П.В. Верховского 1922 г
Apology of the Orthodox Clergy in the Prison Notes of P V Verkhovsky (1922)

Summary/Abstract: The article studies the prison notes of P. V. Verkhovsky, the famous public figure, the historian and the expert of the law. Verkhovsky took these notes in 1922 after he had been arrested and accused of counterrevolutionary activity. The notes speak volumes about theatti- tude of the Russian Orthodox clergy toward events of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the following Civil war. Verkhovsky is defending clergy, demonstrating that their participation in counterrevolutionary activity contradicts their purposes “job description”. Assuring the absolute loyalty to the Soviet regime, Verkhovsky conceals about his ownanti-Soviet position during the Civil war, when he was opposing to the Bolsheviks policy.

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