{"product_id":"religious-policy-in-the-soviet-union-hardback-9780521416436","title":"Religious Policy in the Soviet Union (Hardback) 9780521416436","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReligious Policy in the Soviet Union\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1992 book contains contributions from fifteen of the West's leading scholars of religion in the USSR.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSabrina Petra Ramet (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521416436, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 November 1992\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.73 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eChurch-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 relaxation in the last decade of Stalin's rule, but under Khrushchev the pressure on the Church was again stepped up. In the Brezhev period this was moderated to a policy of slow strangulation of religion, and Gorbachev's leadership saw a thorough liberalization and re-legitimation of religion. This 1992 book brings together fifteen of the West's leading scholars of religion in the USSR. 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface Sabrina Petra Ramet\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Introduction: 1. A survey of Soviet religious policy Philip Walters\u003cbr\u003e 2. Religious policy in the era of Gorbachev Sabrina Petra Ramet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Policy Apparatus: 3. The Council for Religious Affairs Otto Luchterhandt\u003cbr\u003e 4. Some reflections about religious policy under Kharchev Jane Ellis\u003cbr\u003e 5. The state, the church, and the oikumene: the Russian Orthodox Church and the World Council of Churches, 1948–85 J. A. Hebly\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Education, Socialisation, and Values: 6. Fear no evil: schools and religion in Soviet Russia, 1917–41 Larry E. Holmes\u003cbr\u003e 7. Soviet schools, atheism and religion John Dunstan\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Ten Commandments as values in Soviet people's consciousness Sameul A. Kliger and Paul H. De Vries\u003cbr\u003e 9. Out of the kitchen, out of the temple: religion, atheism and women in the Soviet Union John Anderson\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Cults and Sects: 10. Dilemmas of the spirit: religion and atheism in the Yakut-Sakha Republic Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer\u003cbr\u003e 11. The spread of modern cults in the USSR Oxana Antic\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The World of Christianity: 12. The Russian Orthodox Renovationist Movement and its Russian historiography during the Soviet period Anatolii Levitin-Krasnov\u003cbr\u003e 13. The re-emergence of the Ukrainian (Greek) Catholic Church in the USSR Myroslaw Tataryn\u003cbr\u003e 14. Protestantism in the USSR Walter Sawatsky\u003cbr\u003e 15. Epilogue: religion after the collapse Sabrina Petra Ramet\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Religious groups: social \u0026amp; cultural aspects [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Religious groups: social \u0026amp; cultural aspects\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Religious%20groups:%20social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20aspects%20%5BJFSR%5D%22\"\u003eJFSR\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007259758872,"sku":"9780521416436","price":81.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521416436i_94858ba9-cb8c-4aae-9d3e-ab182bcff424.jpg?v=1691381365","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/religious-policy-in-the-soviet-union-hardback-9780521416436","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}