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Russian Orthodox Church and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Era

  • Religions of Korea
  • 2023, 54(), pp.74~115
  • DOI : 10.37860/krel.2023.02.54.74
  • Publisher : The Research Center of Religions
  • Research Area : Humanities > Religious Studies
  • Received : January 15, 2023
  • Accepted : February 13, 2023
  • Published : February 15, 2023

Moon Joonil 1

1원광대학교

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ABSTRACT

In Russia historically Orthodox Church and state have always maintained a close relationship. Until just before the Russian Revolution, the Russian Orthodox Church exerted influence on all social classes, including the intellectual class. During the Soviet era, Orthodox Church had to give way to the new communist ideology as a state ideology. Pious faith in God gave way to faith in the fledgling Soviet. And Orthodoxy, the ideology of the old system, was an object to be destroyed. During World War II, however, Stalin joined the Orthodox Church in the campaign against Nazi Germany, and Orthodoxy and the state were restored to partnership. Even in the atheist Soviet society, Russian Orthodoxy was recognized for its political usefulness and was able to survive. During the post-Soviet period, Russian Orthodoxy was resurrected as a substitute to fill the ideological vacuum, gradually recovering its status in pre-revolutionary Russian society and becoming very closely related to power. And after Putin's rise to power, along with the blatant nationalist tendencies in various fields of Russian society, various phenomena are observed in which the Russian Orthodox Church is also participating in the movement. This article tried to examine the context and cause of these phenomena and to clarify their meaning.

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