Between Repression, Chaos and Uncertainty. Religious Minorities in Early Communist Czechoslovakia

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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/abs/between-repression-chaos-and-uncertainty-religious-minorities-in-early-communist-czechoslovakia/EA2037ADFF3304E6C393F78A1254C29A" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/abs/between-repression-chaos-and-uncertainty-religious-minorities-in-early-communist-czechoslovakia/EA2037ADFF3304E6C393F78A1254C29A</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0960777324000468" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0960777324000468</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Between Repression, Chaos and Uncertainty. Religious Minorities in Early Communist Czechoslovakia
Original language description
Crackdown on religious institutions characterised the onset of the postwar communist dictatorships in East Central Europe. The literature commonly assumes that the new religious policies were influenced by the Soviet Union. However, the adoption of the Soviet blueprint was not straightforward and manifested differently across various regions. This article analyses the implementation process by examining the treatment of nonlegalised religious minorities in early Cold War Czechoslovakia. It argues that beyond adopting the legal framework, the strategy was not seriously informed by the Soviet realities. Through an analysis of the state's attitude towards Jehovah's Witnesses, the Pentecostal movement and the Seventh-day Adventist Church, this study concludes that the Czechoslovak Communist Party did not have any clear plan of action. The relationship with the religious organisations developed organically. It was heavily influenced by confessional distinctions among denominations and ad hoc local decisions, highlighting a deeply decentralised approach to creating religious policies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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