All-Russian Local Council 1917-1918

[Prufrock]

I am interested in learning more about the Sobor which took place in Russia just before the revolution.

http://orthodoxwiki.org/All-Russian_Church_Council_of_1917-1918

Does anyone know if there is a good and reasonably detailed account in English of the proceedings, either on-line or in book form. The link above just references an unpublished dissertation and an article by Fr John Meyendorff. Does anyone know iof any more detailed accounts?

[pensateomnia]

In English, check out:

Benigsen, George M. "Year of 1917 in the history of the Russian church." St Vladimir's Seminary Quarterly 7, no. 3 (January 1, 1963): 115-132.

Bogolepov, A. A. Church reforms in Russia, 1905-1918, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the All-Russian Church Council of 1917-1918. Trans. A. E. Moorhouse. Bridgeport, Conn.: Publications Committee of the Metropolitan Council of the Russian Orthodox Church of America, 1966.

Also, check out Vols. 5 and 6 of the Collected Works of Fr. Georges Florovsky. These volumes contain a translation of his famous Putì Russkago Bogosloviya (Paris, 1937). While the Sobor only plays a small role, Florovsky's work definitely has unique content and explains the situation leading up to the Sobor.


P.S. I've never read it, but just found this one too: Cunningham, James W. The gates of hell: The Great Sobor of the Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1918 (Minnesota Mediterranean and East European monographs), 2002.

You can download a pdf of the book's introduction here: http://www.dyrud.org/IntroGatesofHell.pdf

[Prufrock]

Thank you pensateomnia!

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