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Title

Religion and the search for new ideals in the USSR / edited by William C. Fletcher and Anthony J. Strover.

Publication

New York : Published for the Institute for the Study of the USSR [by] Praeger, [1967]

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Additional Authors

• Fletcher, William C.
• Strover, Anthony J.
• Institut zur Erforschung der UdSSR.

Description

vi, 135 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Praeger publications in Russian history and world communism ; no. 187

Uniform Title

Praeger publications in Russian history and world communism ; no. 187.

Subject

• Russia > Religion
• Russia > Social life and customs

Note

• Papers presented at an international symposium, Munich, Germany, April 25-27, 1966, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the USSR.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

Communism and the problem of intellectual freedom, by G. Wetter.--The problem of alienation; life without spiritual or religious ideals, by P.B. Anderson.--Orthodoxy and the younger generation in the USSR, by D. Konstantinov.--The rejuvenation of the Russian Orthodox clergy, by N. Teodorovich.--Pseudo-religious rites introduced by the party authorities, by N. Struve.--Changes in Soviet medical ethics as an example of efforts to find stable moral values, by H. Schulz.--Protestant influences on the outlook of the Soviet citizen today, by W.C. Fletcher.--The search for new ideals in the USSR: some first-hand impressions, by P.B. Reddaway.--The tenacity of Islam in Soviet central Asia, by G. von Stackelberg.--Jews and Judaism in the Soviet Union, by H. Lamm.--The significance of religious themes in Soviet literature, by Z. Shakhovskaya.--Summary, by M. Hayward.

LCCN

67016683

OCLC

• 382740
• ocm00382740

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Columbia University Libraries