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This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in medieval and early modern Russia alongside orthodoxy. It considers early reference to 'double belief' to show that these are used for a variety of non-orthodox doctrines; and it also considers how the academic myth of 'double belief' came about, showing how this arose with nineteenth century historians obsessed with the Russian 'folk' and their special characteristics, and was used as a propaganda tool in the Soviet period.

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Stella Rock is Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Sussex. Her publications on Russian Orthodoxy span the medieval and post-Soviet periods, and her research interests focus on popular faith (in the broadest sense) and the relationship between religious and national identity.

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