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The Fall of the Russian Empire: A Spiritual History (1855-1925)
The Fall of the Russian Empire: A Spiritual History (1855-1925)
There are those who want you to believe that the past judgments of God were merely allegorical. Tell that to the English when William the Conqueror crossed the English channel in 1066, tell that to the 60+ million Russian Christians who suffered under the Soviet regime. In The Fall of the Russian Empire: A Spiritual History (1855-1925), Vladimir Moss aims to provide a spiritual perspective much like the one Bede provided concerning the fall of first-century-AD England. Interestingly, the period of 1917 to 1991 is approximately 70 years which is said to be the period for national judgement (discount the first 3 years or so of revolution...).
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My aim in this book, therefore, has been to provide a spiritual-ecclesiastical history of the Russian revolution, somewhat on the model of the Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. I describe the main political events, but from the point of view, primarily, of the Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Christians, who, after all, constituted the majority of the population for the whole of the period under review. My thesis is that the Orthodox Church was not only the heart and soul of pre-revolutionary Russia, but also the last pre-revolutionary institution to fall to the Bolsheviks – and remnants of it, both in Russia and abroad, have not fallen yet. --The Fall of the Russian Empire, p. 15
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