TY - BOOK ID - 22699868 TI - Religious policy in the Soviet Union PY - 1993 SN - 0521416434 0521022304 0511598270 9780521022309 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - 322 <47> KW - 322 <47+57> KW - Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie KW - Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek--?<47+57> KW - -Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie KW - 322 <47+57> Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek--?<47+57> KW - 322 <47> Godsdienstige tolerantie. Godsdienstpolitiek--Rusland. Sovjet-Unie KW - Church and state KW - Soviet Union KW - Religion. KW - History KW - From 1917 KW - Religion KW - Church and state - Soviet Union - History - 1917 KW - -Soviet Union - Religion - 1917 KW - -Church and state KW - -Social Sciences KW - Sociology KW - -Christianity and state KW - Separation of church and state KW - State and church KW - State, The KW - -Советский Союз KW - Ber. ha-M. KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich KW - ZSRR KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich KW - ZSRS KW - Szovjetunió KW - TSRS KW - Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga KW - SRSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Radi︠a︡nsʹkykh Sot︠s︡ialistychnykh Respublik KW - SSSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Sovetskikh Sot︠s︡ialisticheskikh Respublik KW - UdSSR KW - Shūravī KW - Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah KW - Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.) KW - Sovetskiy Soyuz KW - Soyuz SSR KW - Sovetskiĭ Soi︠u︡z KW - Soi︠u︡z SSR KW - Uni Sovjet KW - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics KW - USSR KW - SSṚM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun KW - SSHM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun KW - URSS KW - Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas KW - Berit ha-Moʻatsot KW - Rusyah KW - Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyītī KW - Rusiyah KW - Rusland KW - Soṿet-Rusland KW - Uni Soviet KW - Union soviétique KW - Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls KW - Związek Radziecki KW - ESSD KW - Sahaphāp Sōwīat KW - KhSHM KW - SSR Kavširi KW - Russland KW - SNTL KW - PSRS KW - Su-lien KW - Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana KW - FSSR KW - Unione Sovietica KW - Ittiḥād-i Shūravī KW - Soviyat Yūniyan KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - -Soviet Union KW - -Religion KW - Social Sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22699868 AB - 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. ER -