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Chumachenko, T. A.

Church and State in Soviet Russia : Russian Orthodoxy from World War II to the Khrushchev Years / Tatiana A. Chumachenko ; edited and translated by Edward E. Roslof. - 1 online resource - The new Russian history . - New Russian history. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Church and state from World War II until 1948 -- 2. Church-state relations between 1948 and 1957 -- 3. The Soviet state and the Russian Orthodox Church, 1958-61.

Church-state relations during the Soviet period were much more complex and changeable than is generally assumed. From the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 until the 21st Party Congress in 1961, the Communist regime's attitude toward the Russian Orthodox Church zigzagged from indifference and opportunism to hostility and repression. Drawing from new access to previously closed archives, historian Tatiana Chumachenko has documented the twists and turns and human dramas of church-state relations during these decades. This rich material provides essential background to the post-Soviet R.


English.

ISBN: 9781317474623 1317474627 9781315705699 1315705699 9781317474609 1317474600 9781317474616 1317474619

Standard No.: 10.4324/9781315705699 doi

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--History--20th century.
Orthodox Eastern Church--History.--Soviet Union
Orthodox Eastern Church--History.
Église orthodoxe--Histoire.
Orthodox Eastern Church
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Church and state--History.--Soviet Union
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process--Political Advocacy.
Church and state

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Soviet Union--Church history.
URSS--Histoire religieuse.
Soviet Union

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Church history
History

LC Class. No.: BX492 / .C4813 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 322/.1/094709044