Authors
- Ivanov Andrey A. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor
- Kovaleva Elizaveta О.
Annotation
The paper analyzes the political activities of the archimandrite of the Pochaev lavolta Vitaly (Maksimenko) in Volynia in the pre-revolutionary period. Based on the abundant corpus of sources (including for the first time ever introduced into scientific discourse), the authors offer their answer to the question: whether active participation of representatives of the Orthodox Church in the Black Hundred movement in Right-Bank Ukraine resulted in its radicalization or on the contrary facilitated to keep it within bounds. In the authors’ opinion, the view long-held in historiography that Pochaev department of the Union of Russian people radicalized Volynia peasantry is subject to significant correction. In spite of “excesses” and errors, the activity of archimandrite Vitaly in Volynia brought more good than harm. The monarchial union under control of Orthodox clergy did not promote a growth of social and national radicalism intrinsic to ignorant peasant masses in Volynia, but on the contrary kept those destructive moods within the pale of laws. Archimandrite Vitaly offered to local peasantry a legal path of struggle for their social and economic interests sweeping aside the spontaneous radicalism, violence and blood and instilling in Christian ethics. The fact that in those times in Volynia there were no anti-semitic outrages, serious ethnic and religious brawls and major agrarian disorders, in the authors’ opinion, is a clear evidence of successful religious, social, economic and political activities of Vitaly (Maksimenko) in this region.
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Ivanov, A. A. & Kovaleva, E. О. (2023). ACTIVITIES OF ARCHIMANDRITE VITALY (MAKSIMENKO) IN VOLYNIA: POLITICAL EXTREMISM OR COUNTERACTION OF SPONTANEOUS RADICALISM? Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 2023, №2 (50), 46. https://doi.org/10.25688/20-76-9105.2023.50.2.04
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