Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia

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Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia is written by Glennys Young and published by Penn State Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0271017201 (ISBN 10) and 9780271017204 (ISBN 13).

Glennys Young shows how ordinary Russian peasants devised ways of asserting their religious faith during the difficult period of New Economic Policy, 1921-28, when the Party-state was ideologically obsessed with eradicating religion. Faced with persecution, torture, and the creation of antireligious organizations such as the League of the Godless, Orthodox clergy and laity organized themselves against the Bolsheviks. They revived factional politics, even using the village soviets, the intended cornerstone of Soviet power in the countryside, to defend their religious interests. When they achieved some degree of success in their resistance, the Bolsheviks were forced to respond and adapt their strategies - a conclusion that scholars have not put forward previously.