title: Question of the Return of the Power of the Saints of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Context of the Stalinian Religious Throat
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metadata.value: Kashevarov, Anatolii N.
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metadata.value: 2018-04-04T14:28:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T14:28:31Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Kashevarov A. N. Question of the Return of the Power of the Saints of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Context of the Stalinian Religious Throat. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 1, pp. 122–135.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.108
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9282
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The main purpose of the article is to present a comprehensive view of the fate of relics of Orthodox
  saints in the context of state-church relations between 1943 and 1948, when a partial
  revival of the traditional forms of church life took place. The policy of the Soviet government
  aimed at normalizing state-church relations raised hopes among the believers and the hierarchy
  of the Moscow Patriarchate for the return of the holy relics which survived during
  anti-religious campaigns and were kept in various museums of the country. However, the
  Council for the affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church did not intend large-scale return of the
  relics to the Church, confining itself to only a few relics which were supposed to symbolize the
  improvement in the position of the Church in the Soviet Union. On the basis of the archival
  materials, primarily, the documents of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox
  Church under the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the letters of Patriarch Alexis I, the
  article shows how the relics of ten Russian saints were returned to the Church thanks to the
  persistent petitions of the clergy and believers who applied to the highest bodies of state power.
  In addition to these historical sources, 20 research papers were used in the article. Unlike
  the confiscation of holy relics in 1918–1920 accompanied by a “revelatory” anti-clerical propaganda
  campaign, the partial return of the relics in the second half of the 1940s occurred as
  if secretly from the society and was mainly witnessed by regular Orthodox church-goers. The
  atheistic authorities did not want to attract public attention to individual cases of return of
  the holy relics to the Russian Orthodox Church since it once again meant a partial revision of
  the previous religious policy carried out in the 1920s and 1930s, contributed to the influx of
  pilgrims and worshippers to the returned relics, and, consequently, to the strengthening of the
  position of the Church in the Soviet society. A change of the attitude of the Soviet state towards
  the Russian Orthodox Church in the second half of 1948 stopped the process of returning the
  relics of the saints.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: relics of saints
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Orthodox Church
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: patriarch Alexis I
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: believers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Orthodox clergy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: soviet state
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: I. V. Stalin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church G. G. Karpov
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Question of the Return of the Power of the Saints of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Context of the Stalinian Religious Throat
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metadata.value: Article
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