Religion in the Soviet Union

An Archival Reader
1996. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-333-61659-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

The Soviet government's attitude to religion in theory and practice is shown in this wide-ranging collection of annotated texts from the newly-opened archives. Included are documents from the KGB, the Central Committee, the Council for Religious Affairs and numerous other official bodies. For the first time in English we see the bureaucrats' own view of how religious believers should be controlled, following the story from the persecutions of the early Soviet years to the openness instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corley, F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates - Acknowledgements - A Note on the Translation - Abbreviations - Introduction - Religious Groups in the Soviet Union - Documents: - War Communism and NEP 1917-29 - Stalin's Revolution from Above 1929-41 - The Great Patriotic War 1941-45 - Postwar Stalinism 1945-53 - Nikita Khrushchev and Renewed Persecution 1953-64 - The Brezhnev Years 1964-82 - From Andropov to Gorbachev 1982-91 - Sources - Select Bibliography - Index

Über Autor(innen)

FELIX CORLEY