Religion and politics in Postcommunist Russia∗
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12273610 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen E White (0000-0003-4306-092X, University of Glasgow, corresponding author), Stephen White (0000-0002-2112-1560), I Mcallister (0000-0001-8448-6738, UNSW Sydney), Olga Kryshtanovskaya (0000-0001-5278-0940, Russian Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-88 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion State & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0963-7494 • E-ISSN: 1465-3974 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09637499408431625 |
| OpenAlex | W1997305900 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 16 |
The end of communist rule and of the USSR itself brought an end to the restrictions upon freedom of worship with which Russian religious believers had previously been obliged to contend. 1 There had certainly been significant changes in the position of believers and their churches in the late communist period. Mikhail Gorbachev, it emerged, had himself been baptised; his mother was a regular worshipper. 2 An early gesture of some importance was the return of the Danilov monastery in Moscow to the Orthodox Church; refurbished, it played a central role in the millennium of the Orthodox Church in 1988, which brought church and state more closely together than at any time in the recent past. Speaking at this time the patriarch described the communist party programme as 'highly humane ' and 'close to the Christian ideal';3 Gorbachev himself met the patriarch during the celebrations and noted that church and state shared a 'common interest ' in protecting public morality.4 In December 1989 Gorbachev had met the pope, in what was the first encounter of its kind; the following year diplomatic relations were formally established with the Holy See.5 In 1990 the Communist Party adopted a new set of rules allowing religious believers to
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |