TY - BOOK AU - Chumachenko,T.A. AU - Roslof,Edward E. TI - Church and State in Soviet Russia: Russian Orthodoxy from World War II to the Khrushchev Years T2 - The new Russian history SN - 9781317474623 AV - BX492 .C4813 2002 U1 - 322/.1/094709044 21 PY - 2015/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Orthodox Eastern Church KW - Soviet Union KW - Église orthodoxe KW - Histoire KW - fast KW - Church and state KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Process KW - Political Advocacy KW - bisacsh KW - Church history KW - URSS KW - Histoire religieuse N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=955972 ER -