Home – Home – Jornals – Humanitarian sciences in Siberia 2018 number

The article focuses on fluctuations (zigzags) of the Soviet church-state policy characterized by some degree of liberalization of relationship between the state and religious organizations. It describes the processes of 1923, 1930, 1943 and 1965. In particular, the author describes the government actions, which clearly marked the retreat at the “antireligious frontline” and events preceding a liberal “zigzag”, and defines the liberalization timeframes and meaningful limits. As a theoretical model for analyzing religious policy’s cyclic nature the author proposes the model of so-called “exaggeration”. In accordance with its algorithm the Stalin’s mobilization campaign was carried out. The conclusion is that after the paradigm change in the Soviet religious policy during the Great Patriotic War and a new course on creating new denominations in the form of “Soviet church”, confirmed by Brezhnev’s government, the model of “exaggeration” can be used as explanatory only with very serious limitations.