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This in-depth case study examines the Russian Orthodox Church's influence on federal-level policy in the Russian Federation since the fall of communism. By far more comprehensive than competing works, The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics is based on interviews, close readings of documents-including official state and ecclesiastical publications-and survey work conducted by the author.

Russian monasticism experienced revivals during the reign of Nicholas I, the post-World War II era, and the post-Soviet period, demonstrating that the impulse to renounce the contemporary world for the cloister is a central pattern of Russian religiosity. Scott Mark Kenworthy provides the first comprehensive analysis of these monastic revivals, presenting a fundamentally new picture of religion in modern Russia.