ABSTRACT
This chapter will examine the activity and thought of the unofficial Russian nationalist movement under Brezhnev. The movement produced a revival of Russian messianism in the uncensored literature of samizdat, written by revolutionaries, oppositionists and dissidents. I focus on the underground revolutionary Russian Orthodox organization, VSKhSON; dissent within the Russian Orthodox Church; the samizdat journal Veche; the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; the ideas of Gennady Shimanov: and the preaching of Fr Dimitry Dudko. This period saw the articulation of the idea of combining Russian messianism and Orthodoxy with the official structures of the Soviet State.
