About the Lecture

This course will introduce and examine the witness and stance of the new martyrs under the atheist yoke, as well as the life, witness and stance of the Church in Russia during the first two decades of Bolshevik rule (1918-1938).

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Lesson 1: Introduction: Russia’s Golgotha, A Type of the End Times

Lesson 2: The Onslaught of Persecution and Resistance under St. Tikhon

Lesson 3: The Renovationists and the Orthodox Response

Lesson 4: The Satanic Bolshevik Mentality and Methodology

Lesson 5: The Lives and Witness of the New Martyrs (1918-1928)

Lesson 6: The Declaration & Stance of Metropolitan Sergius (“Sergianism”)

Lesson 7: Consequences of the Declaration and the Orthodox Response

Lesson 8: The Catacomb Church

Lesson 9: The Lives and Witness of the New Martyrs (1928-1938)

Lesson 10: Conclusion: Lessons for the Last Christians