№1-2022-07
№1-2022-07
DOI: 10.22281/2413-9912-2022-06-01-78-95
Dubrovsky A.M., Shadoba K. S.
ATTITUDE OF THE AUTHORITIES, THE PEOPLE, THE CHURCH TO THE POLICY OF OPENING THE RELICES (1918-1922)
The article examines an important and especially acute for our country issue of interaction between the secular state and the church both at the grassroots and at the highest level, using the example of one of the aspects of church life. The policies pursued by the Soviet state in the early years of Soviet rule generated a lot of speculation and misinterpretations caused by superficial study of the subject and entrenched stereotypes. The article clarifies the existing ideas about the process of opening the relics, reveals the mistakes of a number of researchers. The main problem is the assessment by contemporaries and direct participants in the events of the policy pursued by the state and its results. The key method of work is the method of collating documents of secular authorities, church bodies and the memoirs of eyewitnesses of the events. The autopsy of the relics as a process that began from below and was picked up later by the state, as a grassroots one and really influencing the attitude of ordinary people to the church, could not eliminate the churching of the masses. However, it was the background against which the interaction of the new government and the organization of the Russian Orthodox Church was built in the first years of Soviet authorities.
Keywords: opening of relics, Russian Orthodox Church, soviet power, Civil war in Russia, Lenin, Krasikov Petr Ananievich, patriarch Tikhon, All-Russian Special Commission for Combating Counter-revolution and Sabotage, People»s Commissariat for Justice, VIII Department «Liquidation Commission».
Academician I.G. Petrovskii Bryansk State University (Russia)
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