Mazyrin Aleksandr, priest
"I Am Merciless in Leading Strategic Battle Against Black-Hundred Clergy". Member of the Renovationist VCU "Archpriest" Boris Dikarev’s Reports to the GPU
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Mazyrin Aleksandr (2016)
" "I Am Merciless in Leading Strategic Battle Against Black-Hundred Clergy". Member of the Renovationist VCU "Archpriest" Boris Dikarev’s Reports to the GPU ",
Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Sviato-Tikhonovskogo gumanitarnogo universiteta.
Seriia II : Istoriia. Istoriia Russkoy Pravoslavnoy Tserkvi,
2016,
vol. 73,
pp. 109-138 (in Russian).
DOI of the paper:
10.15382/sturII201673.109-138
Abstract
Published secret dispatches to the GPU one of the leaders of the renovationist schism in the Ukraine, a member of the «Higher Church Administration» B. T. Dikarev on preparing and holding in Kiev in February 1923 «All-Ukrainian Renovationist Congress», and also about the beginning of activities of «All-Ukrainian Higher Church Administration». Documents show state of-the renovationist schism, the degree of its dependence on the GPU, the methods of struggle of the dissenters with the Orthodox Church.
Keywords
Renovationist schism, «The Living Church», «Higher Church Administration», «All-Ukrainian Higher Church Administration», Ukraine, GPU, informants, apostate
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Mazyrin Aleksandr, priest