The Armenian Church in Soviet Armenia: The Policies of the Armenian Bolsheviks and the Armenian Church, 1920-1932

✍ Scribed by Jakub Osiecki

• Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the results of comprehensive study on the history of Soviet Armenia and the Armenian Church in the years 1920-32. Through documents uncovered in the Communist Party Archive in Yerevan and the Georgian Historical Archive, press antireligious propaganda, oral testimonies, and biographical interviews conducted by the author, The Armenian Church in Soviet Armenia expands the discussion on the history of the Armenian Church in the 20th century, especially regarding the relations between the spiritual leaders of the Armenian Church and the Bolsheviks. In accordance with stipulations laid out by the Central Committee in consultation with the GPU, Khoren Muradbekian was elected as the Catholicos of All Armenians. His election was the principal reason behind the schism inside the Church– which, especially in the Armenian diaspora, divided not only clergy, but laymen themselves. These divisions, even after hundred years, are still vivid in Armenian society.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. The Situation of the Armenian Church during the 19th and early 20th Centuries
1.1. Armenian Church in Russian Empire (1828–1918)
1.2. Armenian Church in Turkey in the 19th and early 20th century
1.3. Armenian Church in the Republic of Armenia290
2. Soviet Armenia (1920–1932)
2.1. Intervention of the Red Army in Armenia. The Fall of Republic (July–December 1920)
2.2. Establishment of Bolshevik Power in Armenia (1920–1922)34
2.3. Armenian SSR with in the Structures of TSFSR and USSR (1922–1932)
3. Communist Policies toward the Armenian Church
3.1. Anti-religious Policy of the Communist Party of Armenia (Bolshevik)1
3.2 Anti-church Operational Activity of Soviet Security Services
3.3 Anti-religious and Anti-church Propaganda
4. Aftermath of Bolshevik Policy against the Armenian Church
4.1 Liquidation of Church Structures and Independence of the Armenian Church
4.2. Persecution of Clergy
4.3. Atheization and Persecution of the Faithful of the Armenian Church
Summary and Conclusion
Bibliography
I. Primary Sources
II. Periodicals
III. Secondary Sources
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Notes on the Translators
Index