God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War Jeff Eden

God Save the USSR: Soviet Muslims and the Second World War – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190076276,0190076275

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190076275
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190076276
• Author(s): Jeff Eden

During the Second World War, as the Soviet Red Army was locked in brutal combat against the Nazis, Joseph Stalin ended the state’s violent, decades-long persecution of religion. In a stunning reversal, priests, imams, rabbis, and other religious elites–many of them newly-released from the Gulag–were tasked with rallying Soviet citizens to a “Holy War” against Hitler. To the delight of some citizens, and to the horror of others, Stalin’s reversal encouraged a widespread perception that his “war on religion” was over. A revolution in Soviet religious life ensued: soldiers prayed on the battlefield, entire villages celebrated once-banned holidays, and state-backed religious leaders used their new positions not only to consolidate power over their communities, but also to petition for further religious freedoms. Offering a window on this wartime “religious revolution,” God Save the USSR focuses on the Soviet Union’s Muslims, using sources in several languages (including Russian.

Table contents:

Introduction: Debating the Wartime “Religious Revolution”

1. The Setting: From the Years of Repression to Stalin’s “New Deal”
2. Praying with Stalin: Soviet Islamic Propaganda of the Second World War
3. Negotiating Stalin’s Tolerance: Muslim Institutions in Wartime
4. Red Army Prayers and Homefront Lyrics: Glimpses of Soviet Muslim Life in Wartime
5. Bureaucrats Bewildered: Monitoring Muslims in Postwar Kazakhstan

Conclusion
Appendix: Soviet Religious Propaganda and Wartime Documents: A Selection
Bibliography

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