God save the USSR : Soviet Muslims and the Second World War

God save the USSR : Soviet Muslims and the Second World War /

"During the Second World War, as the Soviet Red Army was locked in brutal combat against the Nazis, 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...

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Main Author: Eden, Jeff (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
1900-1999
World War, 1939-1945 > Religious aspects.
World War, 1939-1945 > Soviet Union.
Muslims > Soviet Union > History > 20th century.
Ethnic relations.
Muslims.
War > Religious aspects.
Soviet Union > Ethnic relations.
Soviet Union.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Debating the Wartime "Religious Revolution"
  • The Setting: From the Years of Repression to Stalin's "New Deal"
  • Praying with Stalin: Soviet Islamic Propaganda of the Second World War
  • Negotiating Stalin's Tolerance: Muslim Institutions in Wartime
  • Red Army Prayers and Homefront Lyrics: Glimpses of Soviet Muslim Life in Wartime
  • Bureaucrats Bewildered: Monitoring Muslims in Postwar Kazakhstan.

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