ТHE LAND AND THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH : DEMONS OF MONEYGRUBBING, OR OBJECTIVE NECESSITY
The author examines the contradictory tendencies of the monastic land tenure in Russia and Western Europe, a variety of theological views on its necessity and the negative aspects of its over-development. He argues the inevitability of the existence of this form of land tenure, proves scientifically the expedience of increasing the monastic land tenure in Russia as one of the versions for agriculture, and as asample of the inspired organization of agricultural production.