The specifics of the interaction models of the old believers of the runaways (wanderings) confession and soviet authorities in the 20es of XX century

Abstract

The Russian historical humanity, which first experienced the influence of the Soviet worldview system, and then, in the 1990s and 2000s, also suffered anti-Soviet cliches, with their similar tendency to a simplified interpretation of historical events and the desire to describe the multidirectional processes that took place in our country in the past Century, by the obsolete language of binary oppositions, in recent years finds a way for itself to take an objective view of the events of the last century. By finding paradoxes in such understandable black and white antagonistic schemes, we can demonstrate how complex sometimes the seemingly irreconcilable opponents seem to be. One of the paradoxical examples is the relationship between religious organizations and the Soviet state in the first post-revolutionary years. In this article, we will analyze in more detail some features of the interaction of participants of the Russian religious movement, as the Old Believers and, specifically, its extreme industry, runaways (wanderings) with Soviet officials.