One reason that the Bolshevik Revolution came as such a huge shock to the Westerners of 1917 was that for well over a century Russia had been the world’s largest Christian nation, following the Eastern Orthodox Church, and its people were widely regarded as among the most deeply religious.
In that year, the Christian population of the Russian Empire probably numbered over 120 million, substantially greater than the number of Christians in the United States, which ranked second in size. Christianity had been overthrown in its leading country and Christians throughout Europe and across the world recoiled in horror.
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