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His Kingdom Come. Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia

His Kingdom Come. Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia  Book Reviews / CHRC . () – © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden,  DOI: 10.1163/187124110X506716 Jennifer Hedda, His Kingdom Come. Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia . Northern Illinois University Press, Dekalb , ix +  pp. isbn . us. Jennifer Hedda’s book begins with one of the most familiar images in Russia’s modern history: the Orthodox priest, Father Georgii Gapon, leading tens of thousands of impoverished workers to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg on Sunday, January , . Bearing icons and religious banners, Gapon and his followers marched with a petition to present to the tsar, voicing their desperation and demands for social change and political freedoms. When the palace guards fired upon the unarmed crowd, the universal outrage provoked by the ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre served as the immediate catalyst for the Revolution of . Given the close relationship between the Orthodox Church and the autoc- racy, the revolutionary role played by the young priest Gapon has often been understood as either unintentional or exceptional. In her study of the parish clergy of St. Petersburg, however, Hedda rejects both interpretations; although Father Georgii’s actions on January  were unprecedented, she argues, his pas- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Church History and Religious Culture (formerly Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis) Brill

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Brill
Copyright
© 2010 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1871-241X
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1871-2428
DOI
10.1163/187124110X506716
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 Book Reviews / CHRC . () – © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden,  DOI: 10.1163/187124110X506716 Jennifer Hedda, His Kingdom Come. Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia . Northern Illinois University Press, Dekalb , ix +  pp. isbn . us. Jennifer Hedda’s book begins with one of the most familiar images in Russia’s modern history: the Orthodox priest, Father Georgii Gapon, leading tens of thousands of impoverished workers to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg on Sunday, January , . Bearing icons and religious banners, Gapon and his followers marched with a petition to present to the tsar, voicing their desperation and demands for social change and political freedoms. When the palace guards fired upon the unarmed crowd, the universal outrage provoked by the ‘Bloody Sunday’ massacre served as the immediate catalyst for the Revolution of . Given the close relationship between the Orthodox Church and the autoc- racy, the revolutionary role played by the young priest Gapon has often been understood as either unintentional or exceptional. In her study of the parish clergy of St. Petersburg, however, Hedda rejects both interpretations; although Father Georgii’s actions on January  were unprecedented, she argues, his pas-

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Published: Jan 1, 2010

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