Institution for communication between the Soviet government and religious cults - the Council for Religious Cults Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1944-1965) Cover Image

O instituţie de legătura între guvernul sovietic şi cultele religioase - „Consiliul pentru problemele cultelor religioase de pe lângă Consiliul de Miniştri al URSS (1944-1965)
Institution for communication between the Soviet government and religious cults - the Council for Religious Cults Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (1944-1965)

Author(s): Nicolae Fuştei
Subject(s): History
Published by: Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a Moldovei
Keywords: religious organizations; Russian Orthodox Church; representative; believers

Summary/Abstract: The normalization of relations between the state and religious cults appear on the agenda at the beginning of the war, when there appeared the idea of creating a special agency authorized to perform communication between the government of the USSR and the Moscow Patriarchate. Such organization became the Council for Russian Orthodox Church created by a special decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR in August 1943 (the full name of the institution was the Council for the Russian Orthodox Church Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR).

  • Issue Year: X/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 267-278
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian