10. The Russian Orthodox Church: Thirty Years of Post-Communist Development
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2025

This essay is the result of my thirty-five years of research on religion in Russia.During and immediately after perestroika, Professor Dmitri Furman and I conducted sociological surveys on religion that covered the whole of Russia.This research was organized by the Analytical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which no longer exists.In the course of this research, I came to the conclusion that an in-depth analysis of the religious situation in Russia could not be limited to surveys and t