Soviet Youth on Orthodox Believers in the Time of Nikita Khrushchev’s Anti-Religious Campaign (Case-Study of Kineshma, Ivanovo Region)
https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2021-39-4-XX-XX
EDN: DGCLND
Abstract
The paper aims to analyze a unique source - thirty-eight school essays written in Kineshma, a provincial Russian town, in 1964. The essays are entitled “Who is going to church now?" I intend to address the question whether Soviet atheist propaganda was in fact efficient and to what extent patterns provided by anti-clerical rhetoric reached out for young Soviet people in the provinces. The paper presents the Soviet students' perception of the Orthodox believers as well as religiosity itself: the opposition of believers to socialist modernity and progress, the victimization of female and child religiosity, as well as the social stigmatization of believers.
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Egorova G. Soviet Youth on Orthodox Believers in the Time of Nikita Khrushchev’s Anti-Religious Campaign (Case-Study of Kineshma, Ivanovo Region). State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide. 2021;39(4):222-247. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2021-39-4-XX-XX. EDN: DGCLND
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