Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia (eBook)
274 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03612-4 (ISBN)
1. The publication of this on the role of religion in the independence movements in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, is timed with the 30-year anniversary of the Singing Revolution, which took place between 1987 and 1991.
2. The manuscript draws on decades of work in state and party archives of the former USSR, many of which are now closed to scholars. The author is a very well-regarded academic who has earned two Fulbrights, a grant from the USSR International Research and Exchanges Board, and a Hoover Institution fellowship all in pursuit of the research for this manuscript.
3. There is a growing interest among scholars and policymakers in the issue of the increasingly political role of religion (as a factor in nationalism, revolution, democratization, and European integration). This issue broadens the appeal of this work beyond its geographical focus.
The Singing Revolution restored independence to Estonia and Latvia, and while Catholic and Lutheran churches may not have played a central role in this restoration, Goeckel shows how they nonetheless played harmony.At the intersection of faith, culture and politics, this in-depth study examines the effects of Soviet religious policy in Baltic states after WWII.While Russia was a predominantly Orthodox country, the Baltic states it annexed after the Second World War-such as Estonia and Latvia-featured Lutheran and Catholic churches as the state religion. Based on extensive research into official Soviet archives, some of which are no longer available to scholars, Robert Goeckel explores how central religious policy accommodated these differing traditions and the extent to which these churches either reflected or subverted nationalist ideals.Goeckel argues that national cultural affinity with Christianity helped to provide a basis for the eventual challenge to the USSR. The Singing Revolution restored independence to Estonia and Latvia, and while Catholic and Lutheran churches may not have played a central role in this restoration, Goeckel shows how they nonetheless played harmony.
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Robert F. Goeckel is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the State University of New York College at Geneseo. He is author of The Lutheran Church and the East German State: Political Conflict and Change under Ulbricht and Honecker, and its German edition, Die Evangelische Kirche und die DDR. Konflikte, Gespraeche, Vereinbarungen unter Ulbricht und Honecker.
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Studying Soviet Policy toward Religion and the Church in Latvia and Estonia
1. The Early Stalinization Process, 1944-1949
2. The Period of High Stalinism, 1949-1953
3. The Post-Stalin Thaw, 1953-1957
4. Renewed Repression and International Opening under Khrushchev, 1958-1964
5. Détente and Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era, 1964-1985
6. Perestroika and Religious Policy in the Baltics: Playing Harmony in the Singing Revolution, 1985-1991
Conclusion: The Contours of Baltic Exceptionalism in Soviet Religious Policy and its Limits
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.8.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Bloomington |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Schlagworte | antireligious campaign • atheistic propaganda • Baltic • Baltic Exceptionalism • brezhnev • British churches • Catholic • CEC • Central Committee • Church • Civil Society • communist • cultural Lutheranism • Détente • Estonia • frg • GDR • German occupation • Gorbachev • KGB • Khrushchev • Khrushchev "thaw" • Khrushchev “thaw” • Latvia • lutheran • LWF • Ministry of Foreign Affairs • National Culture • nationalistic expressions • nkvd • Pentecostals • Political change • Protestant Church • Red Army • Regime • Religious Dissent • Religious Instruction • religious policy • Repression • Russian Orthodox Church • Scandinavian churches • soviet • Soviet Germans • Stalinization • THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION • Theology • underground Church • US churches • USSR • Vatican • WCC • Western Churches • World War II |
| ISBN-10 | 0-253-03612-7 / 0253036127 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-03612-4 / 9780253036124 |
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