Abstract
This article will be consider the main areas of cooperation between Soviet departments and religious organizations in international politics from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. Contacts of the representatives of the churches of the USSR steadily expanded in geographical and religious terms at that time. The article shows that the establishment of contacts under the religious line, material support and promotion of international relations of religious organizations of the USSR were part of “people’s democracy”. This was used as “soft power” to spread the Soviet ideological project. Religious diplomacy contributed to the reduction of international tension, was a channel of alternative relations between the two opposing superpowers in a bipolar world. At the same time, the Soviet Union continued the ideological struggle against religion and its institutions, and the socially significant activities of Soviet religious leaders were addressed only to foreign audiences.
Highlights
This article will be consider the main areas of cooperation between Soviet departments and religious organizations in international politics from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s
The article shows that the establishment of contacts under the religious line, material support and promotion of international relations of religious organizations of the USSR were part of “people’s democracy”
Religious diplomacy contributed to the reduction of international tension, was a channel of alternative relations between the two opposing superpowers in a bipolar world
Summary
Религиозная дипломатия на службе советского государства в годы холодной войны Основной источниковой базой для статьи послужили документы высших партийных (аппарата ЦК КПСС) и государственных структур (Совета по делам религий при Совете министров СССР), внутри которых разрабатывались и утверждались действия советских конфессий на международной арене. Сегодня несомненным в российской историографии является утверждение, что Совет по делам РПЦ и Совет по делам религиозных культов, формально существовавшие при Совете министров СССР2, были созданы во время Второй мировой войны во многом для того, чтобы наладить международное сотрудничество религиозных организаций. Интерес советского государства к РПЦ как инструменту внешнеполитического влияния ослабевает, более того, внутри страны наблюдается ужесточение курса в отношении религиозных организаций. В период позднего сталинизма значимым для Советского Союза оказывается участие РПЦ в антивоенном/ миротворческом движении, которое рассматривалось руководством страны как элемент стратегии обеспечения безопасности СССР в условиях экономического и военного превосходства США, содействуя одновременно формированию позитивного миротворческого имиджа Советского Союза [Раева 2016, с. В дальнейшем предполагалось усилить влияние советских представителей в международном антивоенном движении
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