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Keeping the Faith

Russian Orthodox Monasticism in the Soviet Union, 1917-1939

by Jennifer Jean Wynot

  • Hardback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Texas A& M University Press
  • 16.4 x 24.6 x 2.8 cm

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In Keeping the Faith, Jennifer Jean Wynot presents a clear and concise history of the trials and evolution of Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents and the important roles they have played in Russian culture, both spiritually and politically, from the abortive reforms of 1905 to the Stallnist purges of the 1930s. She shows how, throughout the Soviet period, Orthodox monks and nuns continued to provide spiritual strength to the people, in spite of severe persecution, and despite the ambivalent relationship the Russian state has had toward the Russian church since the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Focusing her study on two provinces, Smolensk and Moscow, Wynot describes the Soviet oppression and the clandestine struggles of the monks and nuns to uphold the traditions of monasticism and Orthodoxy. Their success against heavy odds enabled them to provide a counterculture to the Soviet regime. Indeed, of all the pre-1917 institutions, the Orthodox Church proved the most resilient. Based on previously unavailable Russian archival sources as well as written memoirs and interviews with surviving monks and nuns, Wynot analyzes the monasteries' adaptation to the Bolshevik regime.She challenges standard Western assumptions that Communism effectively killed the Orthodox Church in Russia. She shows that in fact, the role of monks and nuns in Orthodox monasteries and convents is crucial, and that they are largely responsible for the continuation of Orthodoxy in Russia following the Bolshevik revolution.
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  • Author

    Jennifer Jean Wynot

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Texas A& M University Press

  • Published

    May 2004

  • Edition

    illustrated edition

  • Weight

    554g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    16.4 x 24.6 x 2.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781585443321

  • ISBN-10

    1585443328

  • Eden Code

    1179508

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