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A common assumption made by many historians of pre-Bolshevik Russia is that the Russian Orthodox Chu...
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A common assumption made by many historians of pre-Bolshevik Russia is that the Russian Orthodox Church was a moribund relic of the cultural past, content to serve as a quaint but sometimes oppressive instrument of the tsarist state. A Vanquished Hope effectively refutes this view. As the book demonstrates, ecclesiastical documents, bishops' reports and theological journals reveal a widespread movement to revitalize the church in its structures and life, a movement concerned above all with the church's emancipation from state control. The concerns and activities of priests, prelates and professors, culminating in the preparations for a national church council, are set forward with a wealth of detail in this fascinating study.
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