title: The Multi-Confessional Policy of the Provisional Government
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metadata.value: Freeze, Gregory L.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T22:09:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-05T22:09:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Freeze G. L. The Multi-Confessional Policy of the Provisional Government. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 1, pp. 310–317.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.118
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17517
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The post-Soviet era has witnessed an exponential growth in scholarly research on the history
  of religion in Russia, especially with respect to church-state relations. There is, however, one
  striking exception: the period of the Provisional Government (March-October 1917), which
  has thus far attracted little attention. Whereas the Russian Orthodox Church has indeed been
  the target of substantial scholarship (especially in preparation for the Church Sobor), the same
  cannot be said of other confessions. That huge lacuna is addressed in this new collection of
  documents, compiled by M. A. Babkin (doctor of historical sciences), and it constitutes an
  extremely valuable contribution to the study of the complex confessional politics unleashed
  by the February Revolution. The collection is comprised of 251 main documents (and several
  supplementary texts) and offers a systematic collection of laws, draft laws, inter-agency
  papers, and some materials from religious associations. More than half of the documents are
  published for the first time; these pertain not only to general policy and the Russian Orthodox
  Church, but to fifteen other Christian and non-Christian confessions. On the basis of these
  documents it is possible to follow the development — and problems — in the confessional
  policy of the Provisional Government. The principal shortcoming of this work is the dearth of
  materials on the implementation of policy and the reaction by various social and confessional
  groups. After all, it is important not only to know what was deliberated and decreed “at the top,” but how society perceived and responded to the confessional policy of the Provisional
  Government.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This research was supported by grant No. 15-18-00119 from the Russian Science Foundation.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Provisional Government
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: confessional policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: freedom of conscience
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Orthodox Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lutheran Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sectarians
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Multi-Confessional Policy of the Provisional Government
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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