From the Editor

The Point of Bifurcation: The Orthodox Church in Soviet Russia at the Historic Turning Point of the 1940s (as Experienced in the Northwestern Regions of the Country)

Christian Education in Schools of N. N. Neplyuev in Late XIX – Early XX Century

Problems of the Synod Internal Mission Missionaries’ Activities (According to “Missionary Review” Magazine Materials of 1896–1916)

The Polemic about the Attitude to Heretics in Russian Church in the First Third of the XVI Century

Analysis of “Responses of the Diocesan Bishops on the Issue of Church Reform” (1905–1906) in relation to Parish Development and Improvements

Overview of Activity of the Fraternity Sts Peter, Alexis, Iona and Philip, Metropolitans of Moscow (1909–1917)

«New Course» (1943–1953) in Relations between the State and the Church: the Case of Tula Diocese