title: “We Report about the Crimes against Justice…”: Believer’s Appeals and Complaints in the Brezhnev USSR
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metadata.value: Beliakova, N. A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-10-23T15:54:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-10-23T15:54:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Beliakova N. A. ‘“We Report about the Crimes against Justice…”: Believer’s Appeals and Complaints in the Brezhnev USSR’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 8, no. 3, 2018, pp. 640–658.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2018.307
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14985
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the article are analyzed the appeals, complaints, and letters of believers in the Soviet Union as one
  of the long-standing cultural forms of communication with the authorities. The religious people, using the legitimated
  by the soviet authoritarian system channel of communication, fill it with opposition/protest content. The
  writing of appeals and complaints, which contained the information on the needs and requirements of believers,
  who did not hide their religious affiliation, becomes mass since the Khrushchev era. A number of letters reflect
  the soviet civic formation, for example, the recognition of individual and civil rights is used to demand freedom
  of conscience. The article shows, how a form of communication approved by the government and designed for
  demonstrating sympathy towards the regime was privatized by common people and filled with a new meaning.
  Religious people strove to show that their actions were in accordance with the current law, and local authorities
  are represented as law-breakers. Furthermore, their action against believers / religion undermine the confidence
  and even discredit the Soviet power. The propaganda of the Helsinki agreements and the new Constitution led to
  appropriating the “eхport” (for the bourgeois society) ideas/concepts inside the soviet society. Apprehended the
  article “The Soviet Law and the Freedom of Conscience” in the newsletter “Izvestija” (1976) as a sign about the
  change / the turn of religious policy inside the country, the believers’ petition campaign for their rights protection
  significantly increased.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Статья выполнена при финансовой поддержке Российского научного фонда, проект
  № 15-18-00135-П «Индивид, этнос, религия в процессе межкультурного взаимодействия: российский и мировой опыт формирования общегражданской идентичности».
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
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 8; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religion in the USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the appeals and complaints
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the everyday religion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religion and protest
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religious dissent
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: soviet ideological campaigns
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: communications
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: outsiders
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “We Report about the Crimes against Justice…”: Believer’s Appeals and Complaints in the Brezhnev USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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