Abstract
The place of Russian nationalism in the ideology of the Moscow Patriarchate has become very important. William van den Bercken, noting the preponderance of patriotic over spiritual themes in the Patriarchate’s documents, has suggested that ‘service to God’ might have been replaced by ‘service to the Fatherland’.2 Undeniably, the Russian Orthodox Church is one of the principal centres of Russian nationalism in the Soviet Union today. In this paper, I try to examine how the church has promoted its contribution to Russian and Soviet patriotism, directed towards the Soviet State and the population; and how the state has responded.KeywordsRussian PeopleSoviet SocietyRussian HistoryReligious AffairPastoral LetterThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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