Russian Orthodoxy, Nationalism and the Soviet State During the Gorbachev Years, 1985-1991
Russian Orthodoxy, Nationalism and the Soviet State During the Gorbachev Years, 1985-1991

Author: Sophie Kotzer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781032163307

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This book examines how the Russian Orthodox Church developed during the period of Gorbachev's rule in the Soviet Union, a period characterised by perestroika (reform) and glasnost (openness). It charts how official Soviet policy towards religion in general and the Russian Orthodox Church changed, with the Church enjoying significantly improved status. It also discusses, however, how the improved relations between the Moscow Patriarchate and the state, and the Patriarchate's support for Soviet foreign policy goals, its close alignment with Russian nationalism and its role as a guardian of the Soviet Union's borders were not seen in a positive light by dissidents and by many ordinary believers, who were disappointed by the church's failure in respect of its social mission, including education and charitable activities.

Russian Orthodoxy, Nationalism and the Soviet State during the Gorbachev Years, 1985-1991
Russian Orthodoxy, Nationalism and the Soviet State during the Gorbachev Years, 1985-1991

Author: Sophie Kotzer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-22

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1000026213

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This book examines how the Russian Orthodox Church developed during the period of Gorbachev’s rule in the Soviet Union, a period characterised by perestroika (reform) and glasnost (openness). It charts how official Soviet policy towards religion in general and the Russian Orthodox Church changed, with the Church enjoying significantly improved status. It also discusses, however, how the improved relations between the Moscow Patriarchate and the state, and the Patriarchate’s support for Soviet foreign policy goals, its close alignment with Russian nationalism and its role as a guardian of the Soviet Union’s borders were not seen in a positive light by dissidents and by many ordinary believers, who were disappointed by the church’s failure in respect of its social mission, including education and charitable activities.

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought
The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought

Author: Caryl Emerson

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 0198796447

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A comprehensive collection exploring the role of ideas, institutions, and movements in the evolution of Russian religious thought, Contains cutting-edge scholarship that expands understanding of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life, Considers the influence of Russian religious thought in the West and the role of religion in aesthetics, music, poetry, art, film, and the novel, An authoritative reference for students and scholars Book jacket.

Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism
Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism

Author: Kristina Stoeckl

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-07-20

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 9004440151

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In Russian Orthodoxy and Secularism, Kristina Stoeckl surveys the ways in which the Russian Orthodox Church has negotiated its relationship with the secular state, with other religions, and with Western modernity from its beginnings until the present.

Gorbachev, Italian Communism and Human Rights
Gorbachev, Italian Communism and Human Rights

Author: Autori Vari

Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice

Published: 2023-01-27T14:44:00+01:00

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13:

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The chapters brought together in this volume build on the idea that in the 1970s-1980s the global language of human rights contributed to stimulating ideas of reform in the communist world. The protagonists were Mikhail Gorbachev and the Italian communists. The experience of the PCI was in many ways a peculiar case, but one that was linked to underground ideas of cultural change even in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Gorbachev's ascent signalled a fundamental shift, as he rejected the approach of reducing human rights to an ideological battleground and instead made it the centrepiece of a universalist relaunch. By exploring the encounter between reform communists and human rights, the authors reconstruct the metamorphosis and the end of communism within the context of the wider transformations taking place in European political cultures at the end of the Cold War.

Fear Before the Fall
Fear Before the Fall

Author: Alexander Herbert

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2023-01-27

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1789049806

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Alienation, generational tensions, rampant nationalism and the pervasiveness of atomic danger are all topics that haunted late Soviet citizens, and those fears are reflected in the films meant to represent their horror genre. In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, production of horror movies from independent filmmakers and Hollywood skyrocketed. It was a time of intense Cold War conflict and a resurgence of conservative ideals. It's not difficult to imagine that the ascent of horror occurred in conjunction with an increasingly scary and alienated world, and horror reflected those freights in the form of nuclear holocausts, toxic waste pollution, alien clown invaders and undead houseguests. Everyone was at risk - teenagers especially - because their present and future remained most uncertain. If we can agree that such feelings underpinned American viewers in the age of Reagan and neo-liberalism, then what about late socialism? How did film makers depict Soviet society's fears?

Orthodox Revivalism in Russia
Orthodox Revivalism in Russia

Author: Milena Benovska

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1000203859

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Orthodoxy has achieved a large scale revival in Russia following the collapse of Communism. However, paradoxically, although there is a high level of identification with Orthodoxy, there is in fact a low level of church attendance. This book, based on in depth ethnographic fieldwork, explores the social background and moral attitudes of the "little flock" of believers who actively participate in religious life. It reveals that the complex moral beliefs of the faithful have a disproportionately high impact on Russian society overall; that among the faithful there is a strong emphasis on striving for personal perfection; but that also there are strong collective ideas concerning religious nationalism and the synergy between the secular and the religious.

Foundations of Geopolitics: the Geopolitical Future of Russia
Foundations of Geopolitics: the Geopolitical Future of Russia

Author: Alexander Dugin

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 9781521994269

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION The book is a Russian textbook on geopolitics. It systematically and detailed the basics of geopolitics as a science, its theory, history. Covering a wide range of geopolitical schools and beliefs and actual problems. The first time a Russian geopolitical doctrine. An indispensable guide for all those who make decisions in the most important spheres of Russian political life - for politicians, entrepreneurs, economists, bankers, diplomats, analysts, political scientists, and so on. D.