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Joseph Stalin and the Religious Question in the Policy of the Bolshevist Power (1917-1923)
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Kurliandskii Igor' (2012)
"Joseph Stalin and the Religious Question in the Policy of the Bolshevist Power (1917-1923) ",
Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Sviato-Tikhonovskogo gumanitarnogo universiteta.
Seriia II : Istoriia. Istoriia Russkoy Pravoslavnoy Tserkvi,
2012,
vol. 48,
pp. 72-84 (in Russian).
Abstract
The article covers various aspects of the Stalin’s attitude to the religious policy for the period of the Soviet state’s establishment in 1917-1923. The author investigates the Stalin’s views as the people’s commissar of nationalities’ affairs on the religious problem in 1917-1921; his role in the campaign of a church property’s expropriation in 1922, in «The Patriarch Tikhon’s Case» and in the moving to the «religious New Economic Policy» in 1923.
Keywords
J.V. Stalin, new economic policy, the Political bureau, central committee rkp (b), the Russian Orthodox Church, confessions of faith, clergy, Patriarch Tikhon, antichurch campaign, the expropriation of a church property, «religious new economic policy»