Russkaya Starina

95-105

Authors: Alexey А. Rudenko

The article deals with the issue of Evangelical movement in the late XIX – early XX centuries during its formation in Russia as well as in local Rostov community. It estimates the role of the institutional and dogmatic polarization in the movement. On the basis of the examination of the archival data, the denominational periodical literature, the private correspondence of religious figures and the historical research done prior to the scientific research the writer outlines the negative impact of this polarization on the dynamic of the Russian Evangelical movement.

114-136

Authors: Ludmila V. Tabunshchikova, Alla V. Shadrina

The article deals with one of the less studied subjects of the church-state relationships in the USSR, the events of 1923. In this year there was a change of the tactics in the fight of the Soviet state against religious organizations. The author shows, by the way of example of the Don region, that was started a large scale propagandistic campaign against the Russian Orthodox Church. One of the most notable its theorists was E. Yaroslavsky. There were implemented various forms of active agitation: propagandist public debates and articles in newspapers, public renunciations of the priests-renegades, struggle against church fests, carrying over of holidays, anti-bell and anti-icon campaigns, the introduction of the “red ritual”, the demonstrative closing of churches, etc. The mass propaganda was ineffectual because the “excesses on the ground” provoked indignation among the believers.

147-153

Authors: Ksenia R. Mukhametshina

The proposed article can be seen as a historical reconstruction related to a targeted identification and preliminary analysis of the major problems that determined the development of the Don old believers in the postwar years. Within a chosen complex problem, it is necessary to allocate such important aspects of everyday interaction of the power structures and religious communities, religious practice under conditions of strict ideological and political control, the specific socialization of young believers. The article discusses the Old Believer community in Rostov-on-Don in 1945–1953. The study identifies and analyzes the major problems which determined the development of the Don Old Believers in the postwar years. The author considers the documents of the State Archive of the Rostov Region.