Religious policy in the Soviet Union /  [print] 
edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet. 
 - Cambridge [England] ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  (c)1993. 
 - xix, 361 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>A survey of Soviet religious policy  Religious policy in the era of Gorbachev  The Council for Religious Affairs  Some reflections about religious policy under Kharchev  The state, the church, and the oikumene: the Russian Orthodox Church and the World Council of Churches, 1948-1985  Fear no evil: schools and religion in Soviet Russia, 1917-1941  Soviet schools, atheism and religion  The Ten Commandments as values in Soviet people's consciousness  Out of the kitchen, out of the temple: religion, atheism and women in the Soviet Union  Dilemmas of the spirit: religion and atheism in the Yakut-Sakha Republic  The spread of modern cults in the USSR  The Russian Orthodox Renovationist Movement and its Russian historiography during the Soviet period  The re-emergence of the Ukrainian (Greek) Catholic Church in the USSR  Philip Walters --  Sabrina Petra Ramet --  Otto Luchterhandt --  Jane Ellis --  J.A. Hebly --  Larry E. Holmes --  John Dunstan --  Samuel A. Kliger, Paul H. De Vries --  John Anderson --  Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer --  Oxana Antic --  Anatolii Levitin-Krasnov --  Myroslaw Tataryn. Protestantism in the USSR  Epilogue: religion after the collapse  Religious groups numbering 2,000 or more, in the USSR.  Walter Sawatsky --  Sabrina Petra Ramet -- 
<br/><br/> Church-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 Brezhnev period this was moderated to a policy of slow strangulation of religion, and Gorbachev's leadership has seen a thorough liberalization and re-legitimation of religion. This book brings together fifteen of the West's leading scholars of religion in the USSR, and provides the most comprehensive analysis of the subject yet undertaken. 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521416436 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>91039817 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB93-2061 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church and state--Soviet Union.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Politics  Related to  Religion  History Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR936.R172.R455 1993 BR936