TO THE QUESTION OF PERIODIZATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN SIBERIA IN THE SOVIET PERIOD (1917 – 1991)

Abstract

The author analyzes the existing historiographic approaches to periodization of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet period and suggests a periodization of the history of the Church inSiberiain 1917 – 1991. Basing on the criteria of the change of state religious policy, and quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the inner life and management and organizational structure of the Russian Orthodox Church, the author identifies and characterizes nine stages of the Siberian church history within the Soviet period.

Keywords

• russian orthodox church, church-state relations, public confessional policy, soviet period