THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH FROM TSAR NICHOLAS II TO THE BOLSHEVIK REGIME
THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH FROM TSAR NICHOLAS II TO THE BOLSHEVIK REGIME

Summary/Abstract: The success of the Bolshevik revolution was due not only to the deep crisis that was prevailing in the Russian society, to the many defeats the tsarist Army suffered, but also to the turmoil the Orthodox Church had been passing through for several decades. A breach had been felt inside the Church between episcopate and the clergy of the parishes, as well as between clergy and the ordinary faithful. Many Russian intellectuals passed through a true crisis of religious identity, having been attracted by atheism and Marxism. Can we blame the Orthodox Church for the success of communism in Russia? I try to explain in this study the lack of reaction of the Orthodox Church when faced with the spreading of the communist ideology in the Russian society and Army.

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