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THE EARU RUSSIAN CHURCH AND STATE
The average man of Russia has ajb?ayg considered himself
a part of some unit, be it some tribe or village conzaunity,
State or Church.Frem the Middle Ages until the Revolution
of 1917, the fundamental principle of social life for the
Russian Ration was represented by the Shurch. After the cen-
tralization of the Russian government, the Tsar was considered
the protector of the faith and the Churoh. Consequently, the
idea of autocracy and religion were blended into one single
faith# and the people believed the preservation of this faith
would aave the nation* This faith, however, wag shaken by the
Revolution of 1917; and sine# then, Marxism has beoome the
gliding principle of the atate, Submission of the whole nation
to a otm^on faith is still required, and the Co^unist.Party
oomidera itself aa the protector of this faith, the aatue a#
the Yaa? did under the old regime. The aam# spirit of obedi**
eneeis apparently required from the nation by both the old
and new regimes.^
The Christian religion, in the form of Orthodoxy,
ge Vornadaky, Political and Bjplomatie
, 1$ #
-Ibid., p. 15.
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