The Renovationist movement in the Orthodox Church in the light of archival documents. From: Journal of Church and State | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: Pospielovsky, Dimitry | COPYRIGHT 1997 J.M. Dawson Studies in Church and State. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Vladimir I. Lenin tried to convince the outside world that revolutionary Russia still preserved religious tolerance and the purpose of the Renovationist Schism was to blind the outside world to all the religious persecution that was occurring. To show that governmental persecution of the Orthodox Church was not a pursuit of religions per se, the government needed another Orthodox Church. The Renovationists started as a genuine reform movement but becama a Soviet Secret Police directed front o...

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