Благими намерениями: Русская православная Церковь и власть от Горбачева до Путина

V nachale 1990-kh svi͡ashchenniki Russkoĭ pravoslavnoĭ t͡serkvi prizyvali sovetskikh i rossiĭskikh soldat ne sovershatʹ bratoubiĭstva, dazhe esli takov prikaz. Segodni͡a oni obeshchai͡ut vechnui͡u zhiznʹ tem, kto idet ubivatʹ. Kak ėto stalo vozmozhnym? Pochemu T͡Serkovʹ obmeni͡ala svobodu na privilegii? I pochemu politicheskai͡a vlastʹ byla tak v ėtom zainteresovana?<br>Ksenii͡a Luchenko chetvertʹ veka pishet o RPT͡S kak zhurnalist: ona byla svidetelʹnit͡seĭ kli͡uchevykh sobytiĭ t͡serkovnoĭ istorii postsovetskikh desi͡atiletiĭ. Ee kniga postroena na sotni͡akh dokumentalʹnykh istochnikov i desi͡atkakh ėkskli͡uzivnykh intervʹi͡u. Luchenko obʺi͡asni͡aet, kak i pochemu RPT͡S i ee ierarkhi prishli tuda, kuda obychno privodit doroga, vymoshchennai͡a blagimi namerenii͡ami.<br>I͡Uriĭ Pivovarov, akademik RAN:<br>I͡Arkie portrety t͡serkovnykh i okolot͡serkovnykh dei͡ateleĭ, zakhvatyvai͡ushchie ėpizody t͡serkovno-politicheskoĭ zhizni delai͡ut povestvovanie zhivym i dostovernym. Vne vsi͡akogo somnenii͡a, ėta kniga stanet odnim iz vazhneĭshikh istochnikov po noveĭsheĭ istorii Rossii.<br>Aleksandr Arkhangelʹskiĭ, pisatelʹ:<br>Russkai͡a t͡serkovʹ: kakoĭ ona stala? Kak zhivet seĭchas i chto ee zhdet vperedi? Chtoby uznatʹ neudobnui͡u pravdu, nuzhno chitatʹ neudobnye knigi. Blesti͡ashchie, umnye, gorʹkie. Takie, kak kniga Luchenko.<br>Katerina Gordeeva, zhurnalistka:<br>Ėta kniga - ne prosto obʺemnyĭ i ogromnyĭ trud Ksenii Luchenko, no eshche i khronologicheski, i intonat͡sionno bezuprechnyĭ perechenʹ otvetov na mnogie ti͡azhelye voprosy, vkli͡uchai͡a kraeugolʹnyĭ: kak vyshlo, chto Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ ne tolʹko molchalivo odobri͡aet, no eshche i aktivno podderzhivaet voĭnu i ubiĭstva, stav plechom k plechu s gosudarstvom, sdelavshisʹ ego chastʹi͡u, oporoĭ.<br>Ėti otvety budut polezny verui͡ushchim i ateistam, pravoslavnym i posledovateli͡am drugikh konfessiĭ. Nichto tak ne pomogaet sformirovatʹ obʺemnui͡u kartinu mira, kak kachestvennoe issledovanie, sdelannoe spet͡sialistom, u kotorogo k predmetu issledovanii͡a estʹ eshche i ochenʹ lichnoe otnoshenie.<br>Kniga sozdana pri podderzhke init͡siativy StraightForward.

In the early 1990s, priests of the Russian Orthodox Church urged Soviet and Russian soldiers not to commit fratricide, even if such was the order. Today they promise eternal life to those who go to kill. How did this become possible? Why did the Church exchange freedom for privileges? And why was the political power so interested in this?
Ksenia Luchenko has been writing about the Russian Orthodox Church as a journalist for a quarter of a century: She witnessed key events in the church history of the post-Soviet decades. Her book is based on hundreds of documentary sources and dozens of exclusive interviews. Luchenko explains how and why the ROC and its hierarchs came to the place where a road paved with good intentions usually leads.
Yuri Pivovarov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences:
Vivid portraits of church and near-church figures, fascinating episodes of church and political life make the narrative vivid and authentic. Without a doubt, this book will become one of the most important sources on the modern history of Russia.
Alexander Arkhangelsky, writer:
The Russian Church: what has it become? How does she live now and what awaits her ahead? To find out the inconvenient truth, you need to read inconvenient books. Brilliant, smart, bitter. Such as Luchenko's book.
Katerina Gordeeva, journalist:
This book is not just a voluminous and huge work by Ksenia Luchenko, but also a chronologically and intonationally impeccable list of answers to many difficult questions, including the cornerstone: how did it happen that the Russian Orthodox Church not only tacitly approves, but also actively supports war and murder, standing shoulder to shoulder with the state, becoming a part of it, a pillar?
These answers will be useful to believers and atheists, Orthodox Christians and followers of other faiths. Nothing helps to form a three-dimensional picture of the world more than a qualitative study done by a specialist who also has a very personal attitude to the subject of research.
The book was created with the support of the Forward initiative.