"To strengthen influence of militarists on places": from documents of Irkutsk provincial department of OGPU on methods of fight against religious organizations in the first half of the 1920th
The analysis of state-confessional relations in the Soviet period is not limited to the study of relations between the authorities and the Russian Orthodox Church. In the 1920s an important problem was the formation of a policy towards representatives of Protestant denominations. In the article, based on a document found in the State Archive of the Contemporary History of the Irkutsk Region, the activities of the Soviet security agencies aimed at splitting the local communities of Evangelical Baptist Christians are presented.