THE BATTLE FOR THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHThis book is a collection of articles written during the last twenty five odd years on the crisis enveloping the Russian Orthodox Church. As the Soviet Union began to collapse in 1989 1990, its faithful ecclesiastical slave, the Sovietised Moscow Patriarchate (MP), also began to break up. The Catacomb or True Orthodox Church, which had always refused to recognise Soviet power or its Soviet church, emerged from the underground, and the Russian Church