Authorities Policy towards Refusals of Military Service for Religious Reasons on the Eve of and during the World War I

The article analyzes the problem of refusals of military service for religious reasons on the eve of and in the years of the First World War, attempts and the reason of failure of the Russian authorities to solve this problem by legislative, administrative and repressive measures. The problem is presented against a background of the anti-war movement in the army and the efforts of the authorities and military clergy on religious-ideological maintenance of the world war.

mobilization, refusals of military service in Russia, anti-war movement, religious-ideological maintenance of war, Russian Orthodox Church