Review of: Dashkovsky P. K., Dvoryanchikova N. S. Sovetskaya i rossiyskaya gosudarstvenno-konfessional'naya politika na yuge Zapadnoy Sibiri. [Soviet and Russian State-Confessional Policy in the South of Western Siberia]. Barnaul, 2022.

(Ethnocultural and Religious Studies in Eurasia; iss. 5). 153 p. ISBN 978-5-7904-2660-5

Abstract

In the last twenty years, historians and representatives of related social and humanitarian disciplines have repeatedly addressed the problem of state-confessional relations in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia. Today we can already talk about the formation of a stable historiographical trend: monographs devoted to various issues of this multifaceted problem have been published, as well as collections of documents, in which materials not previously available to the average researcher are published, candidate and doctoral dissertations have been successfully defended, and the number of scientific and journalistic articles on the subject is beyond counting. However, the regional aspect of the problem of the history of state-confessional relations in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia, especially on the basis of local archival funds, remains poorly studied. An attempt to at least partially fill this historiographical "gap" (on the materials of the south of Western Siberia) is devoted to the peer-reviewed monograph by P. K. Dashkovsky and N. S. Dvoryanchikova.