Open AccessThe Beginnings of the Opposition Movement in the Environment of Evangelical Baptist Christians during the 1950s
Author(s) -
O.P. Lahno
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2008.47.1956
Subject(s) - protestantism , opposition (politics) , soviet union , german , political science , power (physics) , religious studies , state (computer science) , population , world war ii , law , political economy , sociology , philosophy , demography , politics , linguistics , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
During the Soviet-German war, the Soviet upper party leadership of the USSR decided to unify state religious policy, leading the movement to unite various Protestant organizations into a single governing spiritual center of the six churches. The secular atheist power sought to fully subdue all religious movements in the USSR in order to establish full control over the believing population of the Soviet Union and the spiritual sphere of life of Soviet citizens. Not all believers liked this prospect, and they tried to resist this "unbelievers" pressure.