Table of Contents

A prehistory of Russian Christianity - Byzantium, Rome and the Slavs; the conversion of Rus' to Christianity and related controversial issues; Church and State in Medieval Russia; from possessors and non-possessors to the great schism of the 17th century; the Church in west Russia - from orthodoxy to the Unia and again to orthodoxy; the 18th century; Church and State in pre-Reform 19th century Russia; the Church in the post-Reform Russia - 1860s to the 20th century; the early 20th century - the struggle for the freedom of the Church; the Church, the State, and schisms 1920-1925; locum tenentes, their deputies and further schisms; the Church during the War; the first post-War decade; Khrushchev's persecutions and the post-Khrushchev religious policy; the Church under the decaying Socialism - 1965-1988; the Church under Perestroika and the agony of Communism; epilogue.