When the era ofCommunist rulebegan in Russia in 1917, religion was seen as a hindrance to a thriving socialist society. As Karl Marx, coauthor of theThe Communist Manifesto, declared, “Communism begins where atheism begins.” Joseph Stalin, as the second leader of the Soviet Union, tried ...
Converging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861–1917doi:10.1080/03612759.2004.10528691Gary P. CoxHistory Reviews of New Books
There are also smaller Tatar populations in Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and in the regions to the north and west of Tatarstan. Small Tatar communities are also scattered across Russia. A unique group of Tatars are the Krym (also called the Crimean Tatars), with a ...
because the Russian chart of all the national charts we have looked at is the most strongly affected by it... I would therefore expect that, although the conjunction represents many other things on a deeper level, one of its effects is to produce concrete changes in Russia... It's very ...
In their relations with Israel, these states cannot claim that the Declaration does not apply to Israeli Jews, since such position would amount to blatant racial discrimination. [I]t cannot seriously be contended, as the EU, France, Britain, Russia, China and other states do, that Israeli ...
Today, Assad relies more heavily on Russia for the survival of the regime than it does on Iran. Russian air power was decisive in turning back the opposition militias and restoring the Syrian Arab Army’s control over Syrian territory. So too was Russian ground support, which included both ...
The most famous such shrine is the one at Fátima where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared before three children in 1917. The cult of the Virgin is very powerful in Portugal, and images of Mary and Christ are commonly seen even in such non-religious places as labor union offices....
and Southern Germany. Occasional journeys were made also to, Poland, Hungary and Yugoslavia and some monks appear to have reached the western borders of Russia. Everywhere these scholar monks went they founded monasteries, preached the Gospel, built up libraries and above all they studied the bible...
The ancestral spiritual tradition of the Western man of the past 1500 years or so, had held before his mind the vision of a life of a far superior quality and abundance than the one he was leading on earth. This was 'the Paradise' of the religion, located in the life hereafter. It ...