The Russian Revolution of 1917 posed a question that has never satisfactorily been answered. How could the country swap one national ideology for its diametric opposite? As one Russian observer asked: “What is the explanation of the fact that the Orthodox Church, so powerful in the Russian Empire, was almost reduced to zero by its former members?” St Tikhon Belavin of Moscow, left, and St Leonid Feodorov. How was it possible that the very same people who were taught religio…
