Description: A pivotal period in Russian history, the Time of Troubles in the early seventeenth century has taken on new resonance in the countryÆs post-Soviet search for new national narratives. The historical role of the Orthodox Church has emerged as a key theme in contemporary remembrances of this timebut what precisely was that role? The first...
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Isaiah Gruber holds a Ph.D. in History from Georgetown University and is currently an IKY Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Slavic Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He wrote this book as a Golda Meir (Lady Davis) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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Gruber's book is an important contribution to understanding the relations between ideology and pragmatism in the Russian church elite's pursuit of power.
-- "Slavic Review"