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Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia : Playing Harmony in the Singing Revolution /

"Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia considers what impact Western religious culture had on Soviet religious policy. While Russia was a predominantly Orthodox country, Baltic states annexed after WWII, such as Estonia and Latvia, featured Lutheran and Catholic churches as the state re...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Goeckel, Robert F., 1951- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Studying Soviet policy toward religion and the church in Latvia and Estonia
  • The early Stalinization process, 1944-1949
  • The period of high Stalinism, 1949-1953
  • The post-Stalin thaw, 1953-1957
  • Renewed repression and international opening under Khrushchev, 1958-1964
  • Detente and stagnation in the Brezhnev era, 1964-1985
  • Perestroika and religious policy in the Baltics: playing harmony in the Singing Revolution, 1985-1991
  • Conclusion: the contours of Baltic exceptionalism in Soviet religious policy ... and its limits.