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| 서명/저자사항 | Soviet religious policy in Estonia and Latvia : playing harmony in the Singing Revolution/ Robert F. Goeckel. [electronic resource]. |
| 개인저자 | Goeckel, Robert F.,1951- author. |
| 발행사항 | Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, [2018]. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: Goeckel, Robert F., 1951- author. Soviet religious policy in Estonia and Latvia Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018] 9780253036155 |
| ISBN | 9780253036131 0253036135 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | 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. |
| 요약 | "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 religion. Robert Goeckel explores how Soviet religious policy accommodated differing traditions and the extent to which these churches either reflected nationalist consciousness or offered an opportunity for subversion of Soviet ideals. Goeckel considers what negotiating power these organizations might have had with the Soviet state and traces differences in policy between Moscow and local bureaucracies. Based on extensive research into official Soviet archives, some of which are no longer available to scholars, Goeckel provides fascinating insight into the relationship between central political policies and church responses to those shifting policies in the USSR. Goeckel argues that national cultural affinity with Christianity remained substantial despite plummeting rates of religious adherence. He makes the case that this affinity helped to provide a diffuse basis for the eventual challenge to the USSR. The Singing Revolution restored independence to Estonia and Latvia, and while Catholic and Lutheran churches may not have played a central role in this restoration, Goeckel shows how they nonetheless played harmony"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 일반주제명 | Church and state --Estonia --History --20th century. Church and state --Latvia --History --20th century. Church and state --Soviet Union --History --20th century. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy HISTORY / Europe / Baltic States |
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