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Social Mobility and the Russian Parish Clergy in the Eighteenth Century
1974
Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies
The eighteenth century marked a crucial new period in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church. In Muscovy the church had been an institution of paramount importance: it possessed enormous wealth, exercised considerable influence on the theocratic politics of Muscovy, and held a virtual monopoly over culture and art. During the eighteenth century, however, this awesome power and wealth all but vanished. The secularized state wrought fundamental changes in the church: it replaced the patriarch
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