Orthodox Church in the USSR on the eve of collectivization

Православная церковь в СССР накануне коллективизации

Obozny, Konstantin (Обозный, Константин) ()
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Obozny, Konstantin (Обозный, Константин): St. Philaret Christian Orthodox Institute

Russian Peasant Studies, 2020, vol. 5, 97-108

Abstract: The article describes the position of the Orthodox Church in Soviet Russia on the eve of the mass collectivization and dekulakization in 1930. Based on the church docu- ments and decrees of the Soviet government, the author identifies serious changes in the church life of different dioceses of the Moscow Patriarchate. Church schisms, mass repressions, quantitative and qualitative changes in the composition of the clergy — all these factors in some ways prepared Soviet citizens, primarily the peasantry, for serious changes in the agrarian policy of the Bolsheviks. Despite the tough internal policy of the Communist Party, which aimed at eliminating all opposition (political, economic and religious), including among the rural population, the resistance to the collective-farm system was primarily spiritual. Thus, the weakening church and its destruction in the late 1920s — early 1930s became a part of the Soviet government plan that aimed at suppressing and enslaving the peasantry.

Keywords: Russian Orthodox Church; Sergianism; collectivization; repressions; collective farms; spiritual opposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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