Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles

The Time of Troubles is ingrained in the Russian national consciousness and creative imagination. Besides defining the first two decades of the seventeenth century as a period of upheaval with catastrophic consequences, it also came to symbolize the country's historical experience as a place of...

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Main Author: Stavrou, Theofanis G. (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2014
In: A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 3, Pages: 587-589
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Summary:The Time of Troubles is ingrained in the Russian national consciousness and creative imagination. Besides defining the first two decades of the seventeenth century as a period of upheaval with catastrophic consequences, it also came to symbolize the country's historical experience as a place of recurrent crises. It makes sense, then, that the book under review owes its genesis, as the author informs us, to Russia's post-socialist troubles during the so-called transition from one system to another, four hundred years after the original Time of Troubles.
ISSN:2040-4867
Contains:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu049