Repressions against orthodox clergymen in the Chelyabinsk region in 1918—1939

Abstract

The article analyzes repressive policy of the state towards Orthodox clergymen during the first
2 decades of the Soviet regime in the Chelyabinsk region, the basic periods of the massive repressions
and their specifics of the region are given here. Special attention is focused on the methods of
Orthodox people to avoid repressive measures by changing church work for some other civil job or
by cooperating with the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs; the effectiveness of these methods
as ways of social adaptation in different periods of massive repressions is also analyzed.