Postwar Eastern Research Articles

Church and State in Postwar Eastern Europe: A Bibliographical Survey. Compiled by Paul Mojzes. Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, no. 11. New York: Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood Press, 1987. xi, 109 pp. $35.00, cloth. - Cross and Commissar: The Politics of Religion in Eastern Europe and the USSR. By Pedro Ramet. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Church and State in Postwar Eastern Europe: A Bibliographical Survey. Compiled by Paul Mojzes. Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies, no. 11. New York: Westport, Conn.; and London: Greenwood Press, 1987. xi, 109 pp. $35.00, cloth. - Cross and Commissar: The Politics of Religion in Eastern Europe and the USSR. By Pedro Ramet. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987. x, 244 pp. $22.50, cloth. - Volume 47 Issue 3

Varieties of Marxist humanism: Philosophical revision in post-war Eastern Europe : Satterwhite, James Haywood, University of Washington, 1982.

Varieties of Marxist humanism: Philosophical revision in post-war Eastern Europe : Satterwhite, James Haywood, University of Washington, 1982.

Staline et la question des voies de passage au socialisme

AbstractThe author seeks to analyze Stalin’s views on a problem that is of concern to the Communist movement today, namely the role of violence in the strategy for taking power in Western Europe.Stalin’s views could vary significantly from one period to another. Between 1924 and 1933, he adhered to Leninist ideas, though a preference for caution can be detected even here. On the other hand, from 1934 to 1953, when he was the unchallenged leader of the Communist Party and was faced by quite a different international situation, he imposed on the Communist parties of Western Europe tactics that were less concerned with orthodoxy than with the interests of Soviet diplomacy. In post-war Eastern Europe, however, Stalin held that the Communists had shown that it was possible to take power without a civil war or foreign interventions. What was possible for the Eastern countries should be possible for those of the West, especially in view of the predominance that the Red Army would have acquired in this area after...

Post-War Eastern Orthodox Churches

From the downfall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, the center of Eastern Orthodoxy slowly shifted from the Byzantine church, which suffered a tragic deterioration under the rule of the Turk, to the Empire of the Russian Orthodox tsars. Before the World War, the predominant rôle in numbers and resources as well as in spiritual and theological leadership was played by the church of Russia. Out of the total of some 144 millions of Orthodox adherents, the Russian membership comprised about 110 millions. By reason of its wealth and of the generous financial aid which it freely dispensed to the rest of the needy Orthodox communions, Russia exercised a far reaching, in some instances controlling, influence among them. Moreover, the Russian Slavophil theologians and publicists have been largely instrumental in the modernization of Orthodox theology which they have restated in modern philosophico-religious terms. In turn, the Russian thought has affected all Orthodox communions and has exercised a dominant theological influence over them.