Novice Sania: the life of underground Orthodox communities through the testimony of a witness for the prosecution

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dc.check.date2025-12-25en
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dc.contributor.authorSamsonova , Annaen
dc.contributor.authorVagramenko, Tatianaen
dc.contributor.editorVagramenko , Tatianaen
dc.contributor.editorBeliakova , Nadezhdaen
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-06T14:18:50Z
dc.date.available2025-11-06T14:18:50Z
dc.date.issued2025-06-25
dc.description.abstractOn 19 January 1918, Patriarch Tikhon (born Vasilii Ivanovich Bellavin) issued a message to the faithful, urging all Orthodox believers to establish spiritual unions, “which will oppose the strength of their holy inspiration to the external force.” This call was prompted by the onset of widespread persecution of believers in the newly formed Soviet state on the territory of the former Russian Empire. Initially, Orthodox unions and communities, often referred to as brotherhoods and sisterhoods, operated legally and openly, as believers had not fully grasped the extent of the changes the Soviet regime was introducing into society. However, by the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, many church communities were compelled to enter the new “catacombs,” adopting a secret, unofficial nature, and their religious life became largely hidden and closed.en
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dc.identifier.citationSamsonova, A. and Vagramenko, T. (2025) 'Novice Sania: the life of underground Orthodox communities through the testimony of a witness for the prosecution', in Vagramenko, T. and Beliakova, N. (eds.) Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 31-52. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978746817.ch-001en
dc.identifier.doi10.5040/9781978746817.ch-001en
dc.identifier.endpage52en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-6669-3845-6en
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-9787-4681-7en
dc.identifier.startpage31en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18158
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBloomsbury Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofVagramenko, T. and Beliakova, N. (eds.) Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR. London: Bloomsbury Publishingen
dc.rights© 2025, the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectOrthodoxen
dc.subjectSoviet regimeen
dc.subjectSoviet stateen
dc.subject~Study of Religions - Book chapters~en
dc.titleNovice Sania: the life of underground Orthodox communities through the testimony of a witness for the prosecutionen
dc.typeBook chapteren
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