Soviet religious policy

«We Express Our Full Readiness to Help the Soviet Power...» A Short Experience of Integration of the Russian «Spiritual Christians» into the Socialist Economy of the 1920s

The article examines the history of a short‑lived cooperation between the Soviet power and the communities of the Russian Spiritual Christians (dukhovnye khristiane), such as Dukhobors, Molokans, and New Israelites. After the revolution and during the 1920s, the communities of these Christian sects created a type of economic associations that formally could correspond to the Bolsheviks’ economic policies. The Bolsheviks considered these communities as their allies, believing that they could become agents of socialist economic forms in the agriculture.

Women in the Communal Life of the Protestant Churches in the Soviet Union (1945–1991)

The article deals with the roles of women in the Protestant communities in the post-war Soviet Union. It contributes to a still understudied field of gender studies related to the Protestant churches of the Soviet period. The study draws upon the archival materials of the Fund of the Office of religious cults and then the Office of religious affairs of Moscow and Moscow region.