„Miłość do Ojczyzny to część religii”. Rok 1944 i narodziny radzieckiego islamu: przypadek Kazachskiej SRR
Love of the Motherland is Part of the Religion”. 1944 and the Birth of Soviet Islam: the Case of the Kazakh SSR

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the paper is the religious Islamic revival in Soviet Kazakhstan at the end of World War II and just after the war, understood as the limited return of religious practices to the public space marked by an effort to officially register religious communities. Two types of such revival could be observed in Kazakhstan: one on the wave of patriotic intensification of the “Great Patriotic War” the impetus for the other was the tragedy of deportation and the need to adapt to new conditions. The first type was characterized by adaptation with the Soviet system and the intermingling of religious elements to Soviet war mythology. The second type, on the other hand, meant long years of functioning in a religious underground unrecognized by official Soviet Islamic structures.

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