Staff of the authorized Council for Russian Orthodox Church in the middle of 1940s

Abstract

Background. The article describes the peculiarities of the establishment and changes in the staff of representatives of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR in the middle of 1940s in RSFSR. Separate features of the staffing table are highlighted in relation to the regions of Eastern Siberia. Nowadays, the problematic has not found a complete, comprehensive study. At the same time, the commissioners and their staff were the most important subjects of the religious policy of the Soviet government in the regions of the country. Materials and methods. The research is based on the principles of historicism and objectivity. We used general scientific methods for collecting and analyzing material, typology. It became important to use special methods, such as the comparative-historical and historical-systemic, thanks to which the comparison of different regions of the USSR and the RSFSR in the formation of states was carried out and the mechanisms of their creation were characterized. Results. The archival documents containing data on the establishment of the staff of representatives of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church are analyzed, controversial and problematic aspects are highlighted. Special attention is paid to some regions of Eastern Siberia. Conclusions. The obtained data allow us to say that different states were established in the regions of the republic, while for all subjects in Eastern Siberia there was one person less in the offices of authorized representatives than, for example, for the bulk of those in the west and center. Not all subjects of the RSFSR were present in the staffing table. For Eastern Siberia, initially, there were no authorized representatives of the Yakut and Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics. Not completely, the issue of wages payment has been resolved, both to the authorized and to the employees of their offices. The situation is not entirely clear, with the cuts in the positions of authorized officers for certain regions and positions of staff members of the apparatus mentioned by some authors, which requires further study.

Keywords

• orthodoxy
• religious policy
• council for the russian orthodox church
• commissioner
• states