title: Bolsheviks and the Holy Relics
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Rogozny, Р. G.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T13:05:25Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T13:05:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Rogozny Р. G. ‘Bolsheviks and the Holy Relics’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 4, 2020, pp. 989–1004.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2020.411
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/24330
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article explores the opening of religious relics in the first years of Soviet power and the reaction
  to this opening by “popular оrthodoxy”. Holy relics — the bones and imperishable remains of holy people — are
  revered in both the Orthodox and Catholic churches. In 1918–1920, the Bolsheviks, knowing popular belief in the
  incorruption of Holy relics, organized the opening of Church relics, and instead of imperishable relics found only
  bones. Government officials, priests, and doctors were appointed to the Commission responsible for opening relics
  of saints. Thus, the Soviet authorities tried to discredit the Church. The organizers of the company for opening
  relics were those who before the Revolution were linked to the Orthodox Church. These were either former priests
  or people who served in the Synod. The opening of the relics was a great shock for the faithful and a great success
  for the new authorities. Instead of imperishable relics, the tombs were found at best with rotted bones. The results
  of this campaign were published in the press and were actively used by Soviet power later.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSCF), project no.
  20-18-00369 (“Processes of legitimizing violence: the culture of conflict in Russia and the escalation of the Civil
  War”).
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 10; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Civil War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bolsheviks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Orthodoxy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Holy Relics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the imperishable
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the autopsy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Bolsheviks and the Holy Relics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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