Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-4907 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1913 (Online)


the Russian Orthodox Church

Atheistic propaganda in the USSR in 1954-1964 (on the materials of the Kursk region)

The article has the goal to investigate peculiarities of the anti-religious propaganda in the Kursk land during N.S. Khrushchev was the general secretary of the Soviet Union. The use of various archives’ information allows discovering main directions of scientific-atheistic education of local population, considering reflection of the whole-union processes on the situation in the Kursk region, estimating results of anti-church soviet power’s activity.

The Activity of Authorized Council of the Russian Orthodox Church affairs in the Multicultural National Region: Characteristics and Problems (Dagestan ASSR as an Example)

In the present article, the author’s attention is focused on the activities of the regional authorized agents of the Council for Russian Orthodox Church in the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the postwar period. There are the basic complexes of problems faced by the authorized agents in the multinational region at that time. Among them are processes associated with renovation churches in the republic and issues related to the registration of the Orthodox churches.

Relations between the Russian and Constantinople Orthodox Churches in the XX century

 The article examines the relations between the two Orthodox churches, each of which occupies a specific place in world Orthodoxy, at a crucial historical period for both of them, using factual material and its analysis in political, canonical and spiritual dimensions. It is concluded that political and situational expediency cannot justify a departure from the essence of Orthodoxy both in inter-Orthodox relations and in the activities of its hierarchs.