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.
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