The role of the Legislative Law Department of the People's Commis-sariat of Justice in the development of the decree «On the separation of church from state and school from church»: according to docu-ments of the State Archive of the Russian Federation

The role of the Legislative Law Department of the People's Commis-sariat of Justice in the development of the decree «On the separation of church from state and school from church»: according to docu-ments of the State Archive of the Russian Federation

Authors

  • Elena Yurievna NUYKINA Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Keywords:

Народный комиссариат юстиции, декрет «Об отделении церкви от государства и школы от церкви», религиозная политика, совет-ское государство, Совет народных комиссаров, законодательная деятельность, архивные документы.

Abstract

This article analyzes the role of the Public Law Department in the development of the decree on the separation of church from State and school from church. Based on the study of archival documents the author managed to show that Soviet goverment wasn’t created special commission to develope decree. The law was developed by the staff of the Department. But the members of this commission which mentioned in the soviet and modern  historiography could have participated in the drafting of the text of the decree.

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Published

2026-06-19

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Section

Confessional history of Russia in the 18th-20th centuries
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