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Religion, State and Politics in the Soviet Union and Successor States
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Item Description...
Making use of newly-available archival material, this book provides the first systematic and accessible overview of church-state relations in the Soviet Union. John Anderson explores the shaping of Soviet religious policy from the death of Stalin until the collapse of communism, and considers the problems in this area facing the newly-independent states of the former Soviet Union. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Soviet and post-Soviet studies, religious history, and the politics of church-state relations. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 252
Dimensions: Length: 8.96" Width: 6.03" Height: 0.59"
Weight: 0.81 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Publisher Cambridge University Press
ISBN 0521467845
EAN 9780521467841
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 | An interesting topic turned bland. May 20, 2000 |
| Religion and its place in a society where the leaders are publicly professed atheists almost seems like a topic that is guaranteed to take on a life of its own. However, I found Anderson's book to not only be dry and uninteresting, I also found it to be rather one sided. Yes, religion was supressed and even attacked in the Soviet Union, but wasn't this a case of reversed roles in religon's (particularly Christianity's) history? For many years religon attacked non-believers. So I found it hard to sympathize too much with much of the church's plight in Soviet Russia. This feeling may be compounded by Anderson's dry way of describing "assaults" on religion. Very little specific examples are given, although this may very well be due to the difficulty in obtaining reliable resources which would depict specific circumstances. Despite that possibility, I still found Anderson's style to be very dry, almost monotone, and not an exciting read. One saving grace is that the historical chronology is set up in a manner which makes it easier to see why the "Soviet experiment" didn't work in Russia, at least with regards to religous persecutions. | | | Write your own review about Religion, State and Politics in the Soviet Union and Successor States
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