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Stranger in a Strange Land

The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in the United States

Volodymyr Vietrov

Hist 201 102 Abstract

The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia eventually emigrated to New York , and created a new Orthodox culture in America , eventually developing convert parishes and institutions from and by Americans . The ROCOR throughout American history continued and maintained the old Russian culture in America , bringing knowledge of Russia to a culture previously ignorant of it . The ROCOR became , through this process , one of

the most important props to the Russian and Slavic anti-communist movements outside of Russia

This , using primary source documents for the most part , will trace the history and ideology of the royalist emigre group , the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia (ROCOR , sometimes known as the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA ) as an element in American history This is easily justified in that the ROCOR was , from World War II onward , headquartered on east 93rd Street in New York City , and became the major element of Russian emigre opinion against the Soviet Regime Its seminary is located in upstate New York in the town of Jordanville itself the heart of the ROCOR worldwide . Both the New York organization and its Jordanville seminary and book printing shop will be the main focus of this as the focus of Russian emigre politics and emigre ideology in the post World War I and World War II worlds . In short , the purpose of this...