Church and State in Soviet Russia: Russian Orthodoxy from World War II to the Khrushchev Years: Russian Orthodoxy from World War II to the Khrushchev Years

by Chumachenko,Tatiana A.

• ISBN13: 9780765607485
• ISBN10: 0765607484
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

From the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 until the 21 st Party Congress in 1961, the Communist regime's attitude toward the Russian Orthodox Church zigzagged from indifference and opportunism to hostility and repression. Taking advantage of new access to previously closed archives, historian Tatiana Chumachenko has documented the political, social, and human dramas of church-state relations during these decades. The rich material covered here appears in no previously published church history. It also has contemporary relevance, providing essential background to the post-Soviet Russian government's controversial relationship to the Russian Orthodox Church today.

Author Biography

Tatiana A. Chumachenko teaches in the Department of Modern Russian History at Chelyabinsk State University Edward E. Roslof is associate professor of church history at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	vii
Editor's Preface	ix
Edward E. Roslof
Foreword to the Russian Edition	xiii
Mikhail Ivanovich Odintsov
Introduction	3	(12)
Church and State from World War II Until 1948	15	(72)
Church-State Relations Between 1948 and 1957	87	(56)
The Soviet State and the Russian Orthodox Church, 1958--61	143	(46)
Conclusion	189	(6)
Notes	195	(26)
Sources and Bibliography	221	(4)
Index	225