Provides a systematic and accessible overview of church-state relations in the Soviet Union. This text explores the shaping of Soviet religious policy from the

Making use of newly available archive material, this book provides the first systematic and accessible overview of church state relations in the Soviet Union. J

Religious organizations in many countries of the communist world have served as agents for the preservation, defense, and reinforcement of nationalist feelings,

Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s the state was politically

Focusing on the eras of Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev, and Yeltsin, a multi-layered account of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union chronicles and analyzes the Sovi