title: Trials for Countering the Seizure of Church Valuables in Western Siberia (1922– 1923)
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metadata.value: Gorbatov, A. V.
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metadata.value: 2024-01-31T20:38:50Z
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metadata.value: 2024-01-31T20:38:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Gorbatov A. V. ‘Trials for Countering the Seizure of Church Valuables in Western Siberia (1922– 1923)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 13, no. 4, 2023, pp. 940–955. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.415 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.415
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44749
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The subject of the study was the analysis of the causes and the identification of the features of the
  trials, as well as the description of their consequences for the Russian Church on the example of Western Siberia.
  The source base for the study was the materials of daily Siberian newspapers Krasnoe Znamya and Krasny Altai,
  archival documents and electronic databases of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was revealed that the believers’
  attempts to resist the seizure of valuables in one form or another were recorded in all territories, but they were not
  of a large-scale nature and were not accompanied (with some exceptions) by believers’ tough actions. In Siberia,
  the campaign to confiscate church valuables ended with the initiation of criminal cases, and in a number of cities
  (Tomsk, Barnaul) with show trials in the case of parishioners and Tikhonovite clerics, with active and atheistically
  offensive covering these trials in local newspapers. An important role in the implementation of the church policy
  of the young atheistic state was played by the secret services (GPU), which secretly controlled the ongoing
  processes, using, among other things, a network of informers and agents. During the trials, facts of bias on the
  part of the prosecution and pressure on public opinion with the help of newspaper propaganda and campaigning
  public events were noticed. It has been established that the death sentences handed down in the course of most
  trials to convicted hierarchs were canceled and the long sentences were reduced. After a short time, most of the
  clergy were amnestied, and quite soon they resumed their spiritual service. It was a planned and coordinated
  operation of the Soviet-party authorities on the ground in collaboration with the Main Political Directorate, aimed
  at decomposing and weakening the Church as an ideological enemy.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was prepared with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), project no. 19-18-00023
  “Religion and power: the historical experience of state regulation of the activities of religious communities in
  Western Siberia and adjacent regions of Kazakhstan in the 19th–20th centuries”
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metadata.value: ru
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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 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Orthodox Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: trials
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: seizure of church valuables
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: repressions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Renovationism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: church policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Western Siberia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Trials for Countering the Seizure of Church Valuables in Western Siberia (1922– 1923)
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metadata.value: Article
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