Robert F. Goeckel

Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia (eBook, ePUB)

Playing Harmony in the Singing Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253036124
• Artikelnr.: 53684254

Autorenporträt

Robert F. Goeckel

Inhaltsangabe

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