A Survey of Archive Sources on the History of the Moscow Theological Schools in the Post-War Period

Abstract

The history of the Moscow Theological Academy in the second half of the 20th century has been studied much less than the history of its pre-revolutionary predecessor. The only researchers have been graduates of the MDA who in their time defended review theses on certain periods of the Academy's history. The most famous historian of the pre-revolutionary Academy, Protodeacon Sergiy Golubtsov, described only the last years of the Academy, which after its closure sheltered itself in Lavra in churches or monasteries of Moscow up to the late 20th century. This article is a first attempt to give an overview of the sources for the post-war period (up to the mid-1980s), which is by no means intended to be complete.