title: Prelude to Revolution in the Church: Diocesan Congresses of Parish Clergy
abstract: Recent scholarship has significantly enhanced our knowledge of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1917, including the role of diocesan congresses of clergy and laity (eparkhial'nye s"ezdy dukhovenstva i mirian) in the first months after the February Revolution. As yet, however, it has been given relatively little attention to the prehistory of the congresses that were established by the seminary reform of 1867. This study seeks to fill that gap and suggests the following theses. First, in the period
journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University History