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Religion in the Soviet Union - An Archival Reader (Hardcover, New)
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Religion in the Soviet Union - An Archival Reader (Hardcover, New)
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Drawing on previously secret documents from the KGB, Central
Committee, Council for Religious Affairs, and local agencies, Felix
Corley reveals how policy was applied to religious questions in
many different areas of Soviet life. Fully aware that religion had
to be controlled if the totalitarian state was to function, Soviet
bureaucrats took the religious threat very seriously. The book
illuminates the varying responses of these policymakers to the
Russian Orthodox Church, the Old Believers, Catholics, Protestants,
the Armenian Church, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists as well as to
newer groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Hare Krishnas.
Even as the Soviet empire crumbled around them in the early 1990s,
Russian authorities still toiled away, gathering information and
reports for the day when their services would again be required,
all the while trying to manipulate what was left of their power,
often with no greater ideological purpose than to retain the
control to which they had become accustomed. This bureaucrat's view
of religion in the Soviet Union from its founding to its collapse
will be of interest to students of political science and religion,
as well as to Kremlinologists and historians of the Soviet era.
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