You would need to have Roman church missionaries in Moscow in large numbers in 988, when Moscow offically converted to Orthadoxy.
Once it is Catholic then you must have the same issues coming up that caused the Northern European counties to protest. However Poland was never in any danger of leaving the church of Rome, neither was Luthuania or the other Baltic states.
My feeling is that if things were bad enough to convert the Russians then the Poles etc. would also convert leaving a North / SOuth devide between Protestant and Catholic.
Would it have to be our Protestantism, or an Orthodox equivalent that thinks that the church has become corrupted and must be reformed?
Would it have to be our Protestantism, or an Orthodox equivalent that thinks that the church has become corrupted and must be reformed?
Is a Protestant Russia possible? or ASB.
Is a Protestant Russia possible? or ASB.
Intensify Peter the Great's reform of the Orthodox Church to the point where he essentially rebuilds it as the "Church of Russia" on the model of Anglicanism or Lutheranism.Is a Protestant Russia possible? or ASB.
Protestantism is really an alien phenomenon to Eastern Orthodox cultures.
I actually discussed something like that with Straha a few days ago. My idea was to have Lenin convert to Calvinism during his stay in Geneva. Calvinism might appeal to the more aesthetic Bolsheviks (teetotalers like Trotsky and vegetarians like Molotov), but I don't see it appealing to the peasant classes. Methodism might be a better fit.Not so ASB as it may look at the first glance.
I can imagine Lenin commentring Marx's phrase (religion being the people's opium) with something like "in the doctor's hand, morphine could be used to help the ill".
That would mean to subvert one of OTL lenilist pillars (fighting religion) and substitute it with something on the line of "reforming" it.
And there would be plenty to reform, with the Tsar's image so connected to orthodoxy and at the same time so stained by the 1905 events.
In short I could envision a revolution having, among other aims, the aim to "reform the religion for the masses"