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• W4379432691 abstract "REVIEWS 773 European Jewish studies and the Holocaust, and the increasingly growing new field of Galician studies. Department ofNearEastern & Judaic Studies JOANNA MICHLIC Brandeis University, MA Miner, Steven Merritt. Stalin'sHoly War. Religion,Nationalismand Alliance Politics, I94I-I945. Universityof North CarolinaPress,ChapelHill, NC, and London, 2003. xxi + 407 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. f42.95. IN this excellent and absorbing book, Steven Miner argues that the Moscow Patriarchate was primarily re-established in September I1943 for the purposes of consolidating power in the newly-occupied territories. This is not a new idea, but Miner brings a wealth of fascinating detail to the subject. The restoration of the Patriarchate did not occur immediately after the Nazi invasion; indeed, in some places church closings were still taking place after the German attack (p. 8i). The public celebrations of Orthodox Easter in 1942 were an indication that things were changing. However, it was not until the Germans were being driven back that the Patriarchate was restored. The regime was preparing itself for a 'looming conflict' with the Vatican, and it was also keen to present a more tolerant international image of itself as the war's endgame approached. However, a key political objective was the establishing of control in regions previously occupied by the Nazis, and a large portion of the newly-opened churches were located in those areas. The Russian Orthodox Church was the vehicle by which the Stalin regime sought to take control of potentially subversive religious opinion and channel it in a manageable direction. The church became an agent of Russification (p. iI). Miner implicitly rejects 'great retreat' arguments suggesting that the revival of the Orthodox Church reflected the regime's growing conservatism. Instead, he states that 'materialist' ideology continued to be the unifying element in Moscow's belief-system (p. I96). Nor does Miner endorse the metaphor of 'negotiation' when it comes to church-state relations. The restoration of the Patriarchate was not a concession brought upon the regime by pressure from below, even though there was a wartime revival of religious belief. Miner, who clearly enjoys using metaphors in his work, uses instead the idea of cancer: the Stalin regime masked itself like a 'parasitic cancer' under a camouflage of nationalism and religious freedom in order to eradicate spontaneous religious activity (p. 320). On the other hand, from a detailed reading of Pravdao religii v Rossii, an account of the religious situation in the USSR published by the Moscow Patriarchate in 1942, Miner suggests that the Church entered into a 'Faustian bargain' with the regime; in return for its unquestioning support for the war effort, the hierarchy expected the state to make the Patriarchate the sole voice of Orthodoxy throughout the USSR and to eradicate splinter groups (p. io i). While the first two parts of the book are mainly devoted to domestic church history during the war, the third and final part focuses on Soviet propaganda campaigns abroad as they related to religion. Notably, Miner describes the way in which Moscow spread the message that freedom of worship was now 774 SEER, 82, 3, 2004 endorsed in the USSR through the BBC, specificallythrough the influence of its agent Peter Smollett, who was director of the British Ministry of Information'sSoviet Relations Division. Smollett, accordingto Miner, played a crucialrole in softeningBritishattitudesto the USSR. In addition,he helped to facilitatesuchpropagandastuntsastheArchbishopofYork,CyrilGarbett's visit to Moscow in I943 and the mass rallyat the Albert Hall to celebrate the twenty-fifthanniversaryof the Bolshevikrevolution(p. 278). Miner suggests that the Anglican hierarchy was influenced by Moscow's propaganda campaigns to a considerable degree. He also argues that there was a lot of wishfulthinkinggoing on. He suggeststhat William Temple, who became Archbishop of Canterburyin August I942, and Cyril Garbett, were duped into believing, or at least stating, that the religious situation in the USSR was better than it really was. For example, Temple declared in November I942 that he saw 'little or nothing' in the Stalinist system with which a Christian could quarrel (p. 255). Miner suggests that Temple was guilty of 'intellectual dishonesty' about the nature of Communism (p. 258), and that the silence of clerics like Garbett about the realities..." @default.
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