God Save the USSR

God Save the USSR pertains to a significant social evolutionary period in religious life in the Soviet Union, through the lenses of the Soviet Muslim communities... [I]mportant historiographical work.

Autorentext
Jeff Eden is Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland. His previous books include Slavery and Empire in Central Asia (2018) and Warrior Saints of the Silk Road: Legends of the Qarakhanids (2018).

Klappentext
It surprises many to learn that millions of Soviet Muslims fought on the frontlines against Hitler's armies. During the Second World War, as the Soviet Red Army was locked in brutal combat against the Nazis, Stalin ended the state's violent, decades-long persecution of religion. Religious elites of all faiths were suddenly tasked with rallying Soviet citizens to a "Holy War" against Hitler. Using evidence from many sources (in several languages including Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Uzbek, and Persian), God Save the USSR recounts the wartime "religious revolution" that ensued, with a focus on the Soviet Union's Muslims.

Zusammenfassung
During the Second World War, as the Soviet Red Army was locked in brutal combat against the Nazis, Joseph Stalin ended the state's violent, decades-long persecution of religion. In a stunning reversal, priests, imams, rabbis, and other religious elites--many of them newly-released from the Gulag--were tasked with rallying Soviet citizens to a "Holy War" against Hitler. To the delight of some citizens, and to the horror of others, Stalin's reversal encouraged a widespread perception that his "war on religion" was over. A revolution in Soviet religious life ensued: soldiers prayed on the battlefield, entire villages celebrated once-banned holidays, and state-backed religious leaders used their new positions not only to consolidate power over their communities, but also to petition for further religious freedoms. Offering a window on this wartime "religious revolution," God Save the USSR focuses on the Soviet Union's Muslims, using sources in several languages (including Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Uzbek, and Persian). Drawing evidence from eyewitness accounts, interviews, soldiers' letters, frontline poetry, agents' reports, petitions, and the words of Soviet Muslim leaders, Jeff Eden argues that the religious revolution was fomented simultaneously by the state and by religious Soviet citizens: the state gave an inch, and many citizens took a mile, as atheist Soviet agents looked on in exasperation at the resurgence of unconcealed devotional life.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Debating the Wartime "Religious Revolution"
1. The Setting: From the Years of Repression to Stalin's "New Deal"
2. Praying with Stalin: Soviet Islamic Propaganda of the Second World War
3. Negotiating Stalin's Tolerance: Muslim Institutions in Wartime
4. Red Army Prayers and Homefront Lyrics: Glimpses of Soviet Muslim Life in Wartime
5. Bureaucrats Bewildered: Monitoring Muslims in Postwar Kazakhstan
Conclusion
Appendix: Soviet Religious Propaganda and Wartime Documents: A Selection
Bibliography

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