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In generd the urban wrkers found themselves in a setting so diEerent from the village that religious practices could not have the same role in their lives as before, but some of them entered urban congregtions, and many othexs retained their faith even if not their habits of church at-tendanceand religious observances. As a whofe the Russian people remained Christian, as they had been for a thousand yars, For hem, as far sa many peasant peoples, the church was the fount of The Russian F"eaple 22 their ideology, the reminder and sanction of their morals, the symbolic cornmemorator of their birth, baptism, marriage, and death, and the center of their social and community life.
Marxism Comes to Russia The Revolutionary Movement It was not from the peasants but from the intelligentsia that the leadership of the revolutionary movement came. There were antecedents, which might be traced as far back as to the eccentric Prinee Ivan Khvormtinin, a sharp critic of his own Muscovite surroundings at the court of the First False Dmitry, about rboo, or to the writer Alexander Radishchev, who advocated emancipation of the serfs in the 1780"~and the young veterans of the Napoleonic Wars known as "Decembrists" because they attempt& an abortive coup in December 1825, but the inteliigentsia took form as a, recognizable group in the 18605.
Its emancipation from the headship of Csnstantinople, never more than a shadow type of finat appellate court in ecclesiastical matters, was followed in only a century by the very real subjection ta the Russian state, which was egectecl by Peter the Great and lasted until 1917. In the late seventeenth century the Russian Orlhodox Church experienced its only schism of importance, when the so-called Old Believers rejected the official hierarchy, somg maintaining their own clergy and others recognizing no clergy at all, Since then the Old Belimrs had suffered varying degrees of oppression by the state.
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