RELATIONSHIP OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM AND THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN SAMARA GUBERNIYA IN 1917-1939*
Using the example of Samara Guberniya, the article studies the relationship of the Soviet system during the period of its formation and consolidation and the Russian Orthodox Church in 1917-1939, when they tried to build completely Soviet atheistic state and society and the Orthodox Church attempts to survive and remain in those conditions.
Keywords: Orthodoxy, Samara eparchy, priesthood, monasteries, renovationism, schism, eparch,
Soviet system, repressions, catacomb church, atheism, JSPD (joint state political directorate).
Aleksandr S. Foguel, candidate of History, associate Professor of Samara State University of Economics.