Religious Policy in the Soviet Union

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Hardcover | 11 January 1993

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Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s the state was politically and financially weak and its edicts often ignored, but the 1930s saw the beginning of an era of systematic anti-religious persecution. There was some under Khrushchev the pressure on the Church was again stepped up. In the Brezhnev period this was moderated to a policy of slow strangulation of religion, and Gorbachev's leadership has seen a thorough liberation and re-legitimation of religion. This book brings together fifteen of the West's leading scholars of religion in the USSR, and provides the most comprehensive analysis of the subject yet undertaken. Bringing much hitherto unknown material to light, the authors discuss the policy apparatus, programmes of atheisation and socialisation, cults and sects, and the world of Christianity.

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"The book deserves to be in college and university libraries and on the book shelves of all who are interested in Soviet dealings with religion." Paul Mojzes, Slavic Review "...opens a new stage in the study of religion in the USSR, no longer as a subject of political science but of historical research." Serhii Plokhy, Canadian Slavonic Papers

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Notes on contributors
Preface
Introduction
A survey of Soviet religious policy	p. 3
Religious policy in the era of Gorbachev	p. 31
Policy apparatus
The Council for Religious Affairs	p. 55
Some reflections about religious policy under Kharchev	p. 84
The state, the church, and the oikumene: the Russian Orthodox Church and the World Council of Churches, 1948-1985	p. 105
Education, socialisation, and values
Fear no evil: schools and religion in Soviet Russia, 1917-1941	p. 125
Soviet schools, atheism and religion	p. 158
The Ten Commandments as values in Soviet people's consciousness	p. 187
Out of the kitchen, out of the temple: religion, atheism and women in the Soviet Union	p. 206
Cults and sects
Dilemmas of the spirit: religion and atheism in the Yakut-Sakha Republic	p. 231
The spread of modern cults in the USSR	p. 252
The world of Christianity
The Russian Orthodox Renovationist Movement and its Russian historiography during the Soviet period	p. 273
The re-emergence of the Ukrainian (Greek) Catholic Church in the USSR	p. 292
Protestantism in the USSR	p. 319
Epilogue: religion after the collapse	p. 350
Appendix: Religious groups numbering 2,000 or more, in the USSR	p. 355
Index	p. 357
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