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Religion in the Soviet Union: An Archival Reader

Religion in the Soviet Union: An Archival Reader

Corley, Felix

Hardcover

Religion General Russian History

ISBN10: 0814715397
ISBN13: 9780814715390
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Sep 1 1996
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.44 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Persecution of religious groups by the Soviet state was no secret. Soviet ideology was explicitly materialist and anti- religious; the state made no apology for its repression of religion.
Here, for the first time in English, are the actual documents tracing that repression, clearly revealing the struggle between religious forces and the Russian communist state. Religion in the Soviet Union provides access to the archival materials, translated by the editor, in which bureaucrats debated policy, issued orders, and struggled with the problems religious believers caused the Soviet system. Drawing on previously secret documents from the KGB, Central Committee, Council for Religious Affairs, and local agencies, this book illuminates the varying responses of these policymakers to the Russian Orthodox Church, the Old Believers, Catholics, Protestants, the Armenian Church, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists as well as to newer groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Hare Krishnas.

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