The Rise of the Orthodox Church in the Russian Revolution

Anatoly Lunacharski who wrote, I know that we're titling this episode religion and socialism or religion and Marxism. His idea was to harness the human impulse towards spirituality towards faith towards religion and harness it towards the people of building socialism which is kind of what we're talking about in an ideal world. But again, contextually you have to consider what is the context what was the context of the Orthodox church in Russia at this time. And so keeping those two things separate is important understanding that when we're struggling we are struggling in large part against the ruling structures of what is given to be religion in a certain community.