Administrative and Ideological Influence of Power Bodies on Sevastopol Religious Communities (the Middle of the 1920-1930s)
Journal: Manuscript
Year: 2020

For the first time in domestic historiography, the article examines evolution of the Soviet policy towards Sevastopol religious communities in the middle of the 1920-1930s in the context of its basic trends: administrative and ideological. It is shown that in the period of New Economic Policy, attempts were made to spread ideological anti-religious propaganda that failed to achieve its purpose. When New Economic Policy was abandoned, administrative pressure on the laymen and the clergy increased