Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia
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Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia

Playing Harmony in the Singing Revolution

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia

Playing Harmony in the Singing Revolution

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Dedication
  7. Preface
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Introduction: Studying Soviet Policy toward Religion and the Church in Latvia and Estonia
  10. 1 The Early Stalinization Process: 1944–1949
  11. 2 The Period of High Stalinism: 1949–1953
  12. 3 The Post-Stalin Thaw: 1953–1957
  13. 4 Renewed Repression and International Opening Under Khrushchev: 1958–1964
  14. 5 Détente and Stagnation During the Brezhnev Era: 1964–1985
  15. 6 Perestroika and Religious Policy in the Baltics: Playing Harmony in the Singing Revolution, 1985–1991
  16. Conclusion: The Contours of Baltic Exceptionalism in Soviet Religious Policy—and Its Limits
  17. Glossary
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover