Dimitry Vladimirovich Pospielovsky (13 January 1935 - 12 September 2014) (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Поспеловский, transliterated academically as ''Dmítrij Vladímirovič Pospjélovskij'') was a historian, a

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of history at the

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. He was a prominent researcher in the history of the

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. Pospielovsky was born in 1935 in Ryasniki, a village then in

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, now in

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. He also published a number of articles, in English and Russian, on other issues of Russian history, in particular, on workers' movement at the times of

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and on

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. Pospielovsky died in

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, on 12 September 2014.

Bibliography

*''Pravoslavnaia tserkov’ v istorii Rusi, Rossii i SSSR''. Moscow (1996) **''Orthodox Church in the History of Russia''. St Vladimir's Seminary Press (1998),

*''The Russian Church Under the Soviet Regime, 1917-1982 (Volume 1)''. St. Vladimir's Seminary Press (June, 1984) *''Soviet Antireligious Campaigns and Persecutions (History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice and the Believers, Vol 2)''

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(November, 1987), *''Soviet Studies on the Church and the Believer's Response to Atheism: A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice and the Believers, Vol 3'', Palgrave Macmillan (August, 1988) hardcover: , paperback: *''A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Antireligious Policies'', Palgrave Macmillan (December, 1987) *''Russian police trade unionism: Experiment or provocation?'' (research monograph), Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1971) **(Expanded and translated into Russian) ''На путях к рабочему праву. Профсоюзы в России'' ("On the Roads to the Workers' Right. Trade Unions in Russia"), Posev, 1987 *(with Janis Sapiets and Keith Bosley) ''Russia's Underground Poets'', Praeger (1968)

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B000AY6VNQ *''Тоталитаризм и вероисповедание'' ("

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and Faith"). М.: Библейско-богословский институт святого апостола Андрея, (2003) (Need a good Russian source)

Sources

''How Stalin Was Resurrecting the Church'' (Как Сталин церковь возрождал)
in Russian, published in ''

Nezavisimaya Gazeta ''Nezavisimaya Gazeta'' ( rus, Независимая газета, p=nʲɪzɐˈvʲisʲɪməjə ɡɐˈzʲetə, t=Independent Newspaper) is a Russian daily newspaper. History and profile ''Nezavisimaya Gazeta'' was first published on 21 December ...

'' on July 12, 2000

References

1935 births 2014 deaths Alumni of the London School of Economics 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers Members of the Russian Orthodox Church Russian historians of religion Russian emigrants to Canada Scholars in Eastern Orthodoxy University of Western Ontario faculty {{Canada-historian-stub