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The Religious Policy of the Stalinist State
This historical monograph reveals the unique story of the secret Soviet commission dedicated to decide on religious-political questions during the 1930s. The rise and fall' of the so-called Cult Commission (1929-1938) contributes to our understanding Soviet religious policy, questions of Stalin and Stalinism, the dynamics of the party-bureaucratic interaction, centre-periphery relations and to the 1930s in general This monograph is based on new archival material. The findings will contradict many old stereotypes and pose new questions for scholars investigating the Soviet policies in 1930s. Pointing out that the structural centre-periphery dilemma is one of the key factors in Understanding Soviet religious policy.
Putinin perukirja
Miten Putin laski kaiken väärin ja romahdutti Venäjän. Kirja kertoo Venäjän valtiollisen järjestelmän itsetuhosta Ukrainassa ja siitä, kuinka Suomi karkasi idän karsinasta Naton pilttuuseen. Miten ”täydellisen hyvä” Putinin diktatuuri voi tehdä niin ison virheen, että maa hajoaa sen johdosta? Miksi Ukrainaan oli pakko hyökätä? Entä olisiko Suomi kuulunut seuraaviin uhreihin? Putinin valtakausi näyttää olevan lopuillaan. Ukrainan sota kiihdyttää Venäjän kehitystä kohti sisällissotaa ja uutta "Sekaannuksen aikaa". Kirja kertoo, mitkä olivat Putinin mukaan tämän brutaalin hyökkäyksen henkiset perustelut. Ukrainan sota on myös salamanleimahduksen lailla palja...
The New Inquisitions
"In The New Inquisitions, Arthur Versluis conducts an investigation into the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. He traces totalitarianism's beginnings to the early and medieval Christian idea of heresy - the idea that there is one correct set of doctrines, and that dissent from them is a dangerous evil to be severely punished and eradicated by the Church. This idea would receive its fullest expression in the Catholic Inquisition. The organization and criminal proceedings of the Inquisition, Versluis believes, laid the foundation for later totalitarianism."--BOOK JACKET.
Keeping the Faith
In Keeping the Faith, Jennifer Jean Wynot presents a clear and concise history of the trials and evolution of Russian Orthodox monasteries and convents and the important roles they have played in Russian culture, in both in the spiritual and political realms, from the abortive reforms of 1905 to the Stalinist purges of the 1930s. She shows how, throughout the Soviet period, Orthodox monks and nuns continued to provide spiritual strength to the people, in spite of severe persecution, and despite the ambivalent relationship the Russian state has had to the Russian church since the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Focusing her study on two provinces, Smolensk and Moscow, Wynot describes the Soviet o...
The Heart of Russia
Studies in particular monastic revivals in the 19th and 20th centuries, as epitomized by Trinity-Sergius.
Redefining Stalinism
Born in 1879 in Georgia, Stalin joined the Bolsheviks under Lenin in 1903 and became General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922. These edited papers reassess the deeds, policies and legacy of a man who was responsible for innumerable deaths and untold human misery.
Conscience on Trial
Trial records translated from the Russian and the Ukrainian.
Storming the Heavens
A member of the first generation of scholars allowed access to formerly closed Soviet archives, Daniel Peris offers a new perspective on the Bolshevik regime's antireligious policy from 1917 until 1941. He focuses on the activities of the League of the Militant Godless, the organization founded by the regime in 1925 to spearhead its efforts to promote atheism and he presents the League's propaganda, activities, and personnel at both the central and the provincial levels. On the basis of his research in archives in rural Pskov and industrial Iaroslavl', as well as in the central party and state archives in Moscow, Peris emphasizes the transformation of the ideological agenda formulated in Mos...
Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia
After the 1917 Revolution in Russia, the Bosheviks launched a massive assault on religion. Although we know a great deal about how the Bolsheviks went about doing this&—propaganda, persecution of clergy and laity, seizing church property&—scholars have not devoted much attention to the other side of the story: the people who were being persecuted and how they responded to their persecutors. Glennys Young shows how ordinary Russian peasants devised ways of asserting their religious faith during the difficult period of New Economic Policy, 1921&–28, when the Party-state was ideologically obsessed with eradicating religion. Faced with persecution, torture, and the creation of antireligiou...
