BOOK REVIEW: V.S.BATCHENKO POWER AND FAITH: ANTIRELIGIOUS POLICY AND ITS PERCEPTION BY THE POPULATION OF THE WESTERN REGION, 1929–1934 (VLAST' I VERA: ANTIRELIGIOZNAYA POLITIKA I YEYE VOSPRIYATIYE NASELENIYEM ZAPADNOY OBLASTI, 1929 – 1934 GG) INSTITUTE OF RUSSIAN HISTORY OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. SPB .: PETROGLIF, 2019 .-- 336 P.

BOOK REVIEW: V.S.BATCHENKO POWER AND FAITH: ANTIRELIGIOUS POLICY AND ITS PERCEPTION BY THE POPULATION OF THE WESTERN REGION, 1929–1934 (VLAST' I VERA: ANTIRELIGIOZNAYA POLITIKA I YEYE VOSPRIYATIYE NASELENIYEM ZAPADNOY OBLASTI, 1929 – 1934 GG) INSTITUTE OF RUSSIAN HISTORY OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. SPB .: PETROGLIF, 2019 .-- 336 P.

Authors

  • А.В Сипейкин

Keywords:

Soviet antireligious policy, Soviet antichurch policy, Russian Orthodox church, Soviet State

Abstract

This review is devoted to the monograph by V.S. Batchenko about the Soviet Policy towards religion in the Western regions of USSR in 1929 – 1934 years. This research is based on a solid base of documents both from central and regional archives. V.S. Batchenko described paradoxical cases when frantic antireligious measures caused the opposite effect. They did not weaken faith, but even strengthened it. Disappointment with the Soviet religious policy sometimes lead even to riots. The results of this policy V.S. Batchenko estimates as very poor. Religion in Soviet Society did not disappear, but just transformed

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Published

2023-05-16

Issue

No. 1 (2021): Herald of Tver State University. Series: Law

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