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The Russian Orthodox Church

Present condition and issues of the day

This book is about the biggest religious organization of the post-soviet space, the Russian Orthodox Church and its problems. The author analyzes its membership and its social structure; groups of influence in the top rank clergy; relations with the government, society, and other confessional groups and churches; economic, social, missionary, educational and charity activities. The author compares the Church’s declarations with its actions, its image with reality. His analysis also includes activities of the Church in neighboring countries, former members of the USSR and beyond it. The book is rich with factual information and based on data collected for many years in 40 eparchies from Novgorod to Dushanbe, from New York to Vladivostok. Bibliography, name index. Also available by the same author: Russkaia Partiia: Dvizhenie Russkikh Natsionalistov v SSSR: 1953-1985 Gody (2003).