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Author | : Dominic Erdozain |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1609092287 |
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At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the deficiencies of the Soviet leadership or the chaos of a "command" economy. Beneath the rhetoric of scientific communism was a culture of intellectual and cultural dissidence, which may be regarded as the "prehistory of perestroika." This volume explores the contribution of Christian thought and belief to this culture of dissent and survival, showing how religious and secular streams of resistance joined in an unexpected and powerful partnership. The essays in The Dangerous God seek to shed light on the dynamic and subversive capacities of religious faith in a context of brutal oppression, while acknowledging the often-collusive relationship between clerical elites and the Soviet authorities. Against the Marxist notion of the "ideological" function of religion, the authors set the example of people for whom faith was more than an opiate; against an enduring mythology of secularization, they propose the centrality of religious faith in the intellectual, political, and cultural life of the late modern era. This volume will appeal to specialists on religion in Soviet history as well as those interested in the history of religion under totalitarian regimes.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Political and Military Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Freedom of religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Antisemitism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : F. Corley |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 1996-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230390048 |
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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.
Author | : Walter Kolarz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Comprehensive survey of the situation of various religious groups in the U.S.S.R., including Christian, Moslem, Buddhist, Jewish, with contemporary developments under the Khrushchev regime.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Antisemitism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Antisemitism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Antisemitism |
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Download Religious Persecution in the Soviet Union: Soviet Jewry Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Sabrina P. Ramet |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0521416434 |
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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 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.
Author | : Mordechai Altshuler |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 161168272X |
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Unearths the roots of a national awakening among Soviet Jews during World War II and its aftermath