Commissioner of the Council for the affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Kalinin region during the period of “church revival”: persecutor or helper?
The article examines the activities of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church and its commissioners during the period of "church revival" from 1943 to 1958. There is no consensus in historiography on the role of this organization in the interaction with the governing dioceses, clergy, believers during the period of "church revival". On the basis of the materials of the State Archive of the Tver Region, the archival department of the Tver Diocesan Scientific Library, memoirs of contemporaries the article analyzes the activities of the authorized Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Kalinin region aimed at opening of churches, registration of clergy, relationships with believers. The research is carried out within the framework of implementing the project "Church life in the Soviet society in the 1940s-1950s: religious practices of the population of the Kalinin region in the memoirs of "children of war"". The conclusion is made about the contradictory role of the commissioner - on the one hand, protection, on the other, violation of the rights of believers .