State-Confessional Relations in the Tatar ASSR during Perestroika (1985–1989)
This article traces how state-confessional relations in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic were gradually reshaped between 1985 and 1989. The evidentiary base consists of two document collections held in the State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan (GA RT): the papers of the Tatar Regional Committee of th...