Rodzianko: An Orthodox Journey from Revolution to Millennium, 1917-1988

By Larry Witham

Book Overview

Vladimir Rodzianko, a prominent Orthodox priest, is known in the Soviet Union, Europe, and the United States. His notoriety begins with a prominent family line that extends back to the birth of the Russian nation. After his family fled the Bolshevik revolution, his career evolved from emigre priest to Russian-language broadcaster for the BBC and finally as a ruling bishop in America. By recounting Rodzianko's life, a parallel story emerges the story of the Russian Orthodox Church from the 1917 Revolution to the Christian Millennium there in 1988. This story concludes in June 1990 with the election of a new Russian Orthodox patriarch in the era of glasnost. Moreover, this is a biography of a priest, Russian emigre, and broadcaster who confronts the reality of the Orthodox church under communism, a situation so problematic that it has created martyrs and traitors inside the USSR and has deeply divided Christians in the West.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819179957
• ISBN13: 9780819179951
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.1" x 6.0"