Dimitry Vladimirovich Pospielovsky (13 January 1935 – 12 September 2014) (, 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 Russian Revolutions 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"), ' publishers, 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 ''

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'' 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 Academic staff of the University of Western Ontario {{Canada-historian-stub