Roy R Robson

Biographic Data

ID371003
NAMERoy R Robson
GIVEN NAMESRoy R
FAMILY NAMERobson
SIGNATUREROBSON R R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Sciences
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • Keeping the Ancient Piety

    Roy R Robson, Elena B SmilianskaiaCHAPTERPicturing Russia2017

  • Solovki

    Roy R RobsonBOOKSolovki2017

    Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers and politicians. The site of a beautiful medieval monastery—once home to one of the greatest libraries of eastern Europe—Solovki became in the twentieth century a notorious labor camp. Roy Robson rec…

  • Art and Politics at the Vatican Congregation for the Oriental Churches, 1917-45

    Roy R Robson, Roy RobsonARTICLERussian History2011

    In the period 1917-45, the Roman Catholic Church vacillated in its views of Russian Orthodoxy and the Russian Revolution. Some forces in the Vatican focused on the “consecration” of Russia, connoting support for Orthodoxy. Others preferred to push for the “conversion” of Russia to Roman Catholicism. The tension between these competing views can be seen in the Vatican's patronage of the arts. From 1925-1945, the Congregation for the Oriental Churc…

  • Church and State in Late Imperial Russia

    Open AccessRoy R RobsonARTICLEJournal of Religious History2011

  • Priscilla Carrasco. Praise Old Believers

    Open AccessRoy R RobsonARTICLEFOLKLORICA - Journal of the…2010

    Praise Old Believers is aptly named.A coffee-table sized volume with excellent photographic reproduction and art-book design, it weaves together text and photographs (some in color) of Old Believers in Oregon and Alaska from 1966-1987.Throughout, Praise Old Believers takes a loving and largely uncritical look at the families who moved to the USA in the mid-1960s, bringing with them an Old Believer folk tradition that had found its way through Rus…

  • Solovki

    Michael A Pesenson, Roy R RobsonARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…2005Cited by: 1

    Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers and politicians. The site of a beautiful medieval monastery - once home to one of the greatest libraries of eastern Europe - Solovki became in the twentieth century a notorious labour camp. Roy Robso…

  • Religion in the Soviet Union

    Roy R Robson, Felix CorleyARTICLEThe Slavic and East European…1998

    List of Plates - Acknowledgements - A Note on the Translation - Abbreviations - Introduction - Religious Groups in the Soviet Union - Documents: - War Communism and NEP 1917-29 - Stalin's Revolution from Above 1929-41 - The Great Patriotic War 1941-45 - Postwar Stalinism 1945-53 - Nikita Khrushchev and Renewed Persecution 1953-64 - The Brezhnev Years 1964-82 - From Andropov to Gorbachev 1982-91 - Sources - Select Bibliography - Index

  • Старообрядцы спасовцы

    Open AccessE A Ageeva, Е А Агеева et al.ARTICLERevue des études slaves1997

  • Old Believers in Modern Russia

    Paul D Steeves, Roy R RobsonARTICLEThe Russian Review1997

  • Liturgy and Community Among Old Believers, 1905-1917

    Open AccessRoy R RobsonARTICLESlavic Review1993Cited by: 4References: 1

    Without liturgy there is no Christianity.-Old Believer Bishop MikhailThe term Old Believers (or Old Ritualists) refers to a number of groups that arose as a result of Russian church reforms, 1654-1666, when Patriarch Nikon sought to make Russian practices conform to their contemporary Greek counterparts. Conscious of both a departure from tradition and an encroachment of central control over local autonomy, Old Believers endeavored to maintain th…