Believers in the USSR

Instead of concentrating on teachings and customs, in the effort to arrive at an accurate picture of the milieux of believers in the Soviet Union, my primary concern is to grasp some of the social and political phenomena reproducing religious and quasi-religious faith, and to see whether they have a tendency to diminish the flocks practicing religion. Given the large Soviet sociological literature on contemporary religion it is reasonable to assume that the enlargement of this body of literature since the mid- 1960s is one of the surest signs of the Party-state's preoccupation with the problem. Notwithstanding the regime's hostility and even harassment, all churches and denominations have profited from the provisions of the first Soviet Russian Constitution granting freedom for religious propaganda

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