"Out of the frying pan into the fire": Kursk Old-belief communities and authorities in the first part of XX century
In the work a history of realization of state religion policy towards Old-believers from beginning of XX cent. until 1940s is investigated. Basing on materials of Kursk region, the authors demonstrate dynamics of changes in social and legal state of provincial Old-Belief communities. It is shown that in 1930s in Old-Belief world began crisis of traditional church life.