Despite suffering horrendously at the hands of the state, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) still existed in the USSR at the start of WWII. Internally split and deprived of its former...

Many sections of the Russian Orthodox Church supported the anti-Soviet regimes such as those of Kolchak and Denikin during the civil war. In 1918, the Bishop of Ufa made xenophobic and …

May 7, 2023 · During the Second World War, or Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) in the Russian tradition, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) supported the struggle of the Soviet army …

Two years after the Battle of Moscow was won, Stalin met with three chief hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, allowed the clergy to perform religious services, celebrate Easter …

Brest exhibition highlights Russian Orthodox Church during Great Patriotic War Victory and Salvation

During World War II, Stalin adopted a new policy. He granted the churches a limited institutional existence, and in return church leaders have been expected to speak favorably of Soviet …

Mar 12, 2012 · During World War I, the Russian Orthodox Church looked forward to taking back its old base, Constantinople, from Russia's wartime enemy, the Ottoman Empire.

May 11, 2021 · The relations of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) with the Axis powers and their allies between 1939–1945 were of a difficult, ambiguous nature and …

Aug 16, 2019 · While the meeting with Stalin did not mark a total resurgence of Orthodoxy—persecutions were renewed under Nikita Khrushchev—amid the crisis of World …

The opening of the Soviet archives has enabled scholars to correct some previ-ously held misconceptions about the history of the Russian Orthodox Church since World War II.