title: Faithful Collective Farmers and “Communist Priests”: Coexistence of Orthodox and “Socialist” Cultures in the Life of the Soviet Village in the Late Stalin and Khrushchev Periods
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metadata.value: Apanasenok, A. V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-01-13T14:46:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-01-13T14:46:17Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.value: Apanasenok A. V. ‘Faithful Collective Farmers and “Communist Priests”: Coexistence of Orthodox and “Socialist” Cultures in the Life of the Soviet Village in the Late Stalin and Khrushchev Periods’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 4, 2022, pp. 1018–1034. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2022.412 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2022.412
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38848
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper is devoted to the problem of the existence of Orthodox traditions in the life of Soviet collective
  farms during post-war decades. Its main goal is to find out how the traditional confessional culture of the village
  has adapted to the realities of “developed socialism”. Considering the Orthodox practices of Soviet peasants
  in the late Stalin and Khrushchev periods, the author departs from the traditionally rigid opposition of the concepts
  of “Soviet” and “religious”, starting from the thesis about the possibility of mutual influence of the corresponding
  cultures and their practical coordination at the level of everyday life. The research source base was made up
  of materials from the central and regional offices of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church
  under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, as well as documents of party structures that actively discussed the
  problems of mass religiosity during the Khrushchev period. Based on them, the paper discusses the depth of
  penetration of Soviet ideology into village life, the manifestations of the post-war Orthodox revival, the attitude of
  local party cadres to it and specific ways of adapting “village Orthodoxy” to official Soviet discourses. The paper
  concludes that traditional Orthodox practices were filled with additional meanings corresponding to the values
  of patriotism, socialist construction, and the struggle for peace officially declared by the Soviet state. In addition,
  the appearance of a new type of “Soviet priest” in the village is demonstrated — a priest who shares communist
  values with the exception of atheism and broadcasts them to his parishioners. Finally, the paper shows examples
  of practical coordination by peasants of elements of Orthodox and new “socialist” culture both at the level of
  worldview and in everyday life.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project no. 21-09-
  43066 “Soviet Identity and Problems of Religiosity: Orthodox Practices in the Everyday Life of Soviet Citizens in
  the 1940–1980s”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet Union
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: peasantry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Orthodoxy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: confessional practices
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: socialism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Faithful Collective Farmers and “Communist Priests”: Coexistence of Orthodox and “Socialist” Cultures in the Life of the Soviet Village in the Late Stalin and Khrushchev Periods
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metadata.value: Article
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