Contents

pp ix-x

Notes on contributors

pp xi-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xx

Part I - Introduction

pp 1-2

1 - A survey of Soviet religious policy

pp 3-30

2 - Religious policy in the era of Gorbachev

pp 31-52

Part II - Policy apparatus

pp 53-54

3 - The Council for Religious Affairs

pp 55-83

4 - Some reflections about religious policy under Kharchev

pp 84-104

5 - The state, the church, and the oikumene: the Russian Orthodox Church and the World Council of Churches, 1948–1985

pp 105-122

Part III - Education, socialisation, and values

pp 123-124

6 - Fear no evil: schools and religion in Soviet Russia, 1917–1941

pp 125-157

7 - Soviet schools, atheism and religion

pp 158-186

8 - The Ten Commandments as values in Soviet people's consciousness

pp 187-205

9 - Out of the kitchen, out of the temple: religion, atheism and women in the Soviet Union

pp 206-228

Part IV - Cults and sects

pp 229-230

10 - Dilemmas of the spirit: religion and atheism in the Yakut-Sakha Republic

pp 231-251

11 - The spread of modern cults in the USSR

pp 252-270

Part V - The world of Christianity

pp 271-272

12 - The Russian Orthodox Renovationist Movement and its Russian historiography during the Soviet period

pp 273-291

13 - The re-emergence of the Ukrainian (Greek) Catholic Church in the USSR

pp 292-318

14 - Protestantism in the USSR

pp 319-349

15 - Epilogue: religion after the collapse

pp 350-354

APPENDIX: Religious groups numbering 2,000 or more, in the USSR

pp 355-356

Index

pp 357-361