The “New Course” of Soviet Religious Policy and the Buddhist Confession in the Buryat-Mongol ASSR: Mechanisms of Institutionalization and State Control
The article examines the mechanisms for implementing religious policy in the USSR during the “New Course” period from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s, using the case study of Buddhists in the Buryat-Mongol ASSR. Drawing on archival materials from the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the State Archive of the...