Requisitioning of Church Property

Commissariat of Social Welfare, Order . January 26, 1918

Original Source: A. I. Vvedenskii, Tserkov' i gosudarstvo: Ocherk vzaimootnoshenii tserkvi i gosudarstva v Rossii 1918-1922 g. (Moscow, 1923), p. 123.

In view of the decision of the People's Commissar to requisition all ... buildings, inventories, and valuables of the Aleksandr Nevskii Lavra you are hereby ordered to surrender to the representative of the Ministry of Social Welfare all papers relating to the administration of properties and capital of the Lavra ...

A. KOLLONTAI People's Commissar

Source: James Bunyan and H.H. Fisher, ed., Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1918; Documents and Materials (Stanford: Stanford University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934), p. 587.

1917

EVENTS February Revolution Formation of the Soviets April Crisis Revolution in the Army July Days Kornilov Affair Bolsheviks Seize Power First Bolshevik Decrees Constituent Assembly Treaty of Brest Litovsk
FOUR KINDS OF STATES Communist Party Building Economic Apparatus Building the Soviets Red Guard into Army State Security
DISINTEGRATION OF THE OLD SOCIETY Depopulation of the Cities Food Supply Conflict with the Church Death of the Old Culture Destruction of the Left The Empire Falls
CREATION OF A NEW SOCIETY New Letters and Dates Culture and Revolution The New Woman Workers Organization Peasant Revolution Organs of the Press Raising Socialist Youth