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The Moscow Patriarchate and the Bolshevik Revolution
Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow, 1917-1925
Essay first published in Problems No 32, 2017
100 years of the Moscow patriarchate - The first Moscow Patriarchate - A captive church
The Council and the Revolution - Bolshevik intentions
A Bolshevik Church? - Lunacharsky and Lenin - Beginnings of the Renovationist Church - Relations with Constantinople
A softening of Soviet policy? - Trotsky on religion - Renovationist and 'Tikhonite' motives
The Solovki Memorandum - Failure of the Renovation - The Declaration of 1927
The 'Great Turn' in Soviet policy - The aftermath
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