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«Holy Trinity» of the communist creed in the culture of the Soviet citizen religion (OPEN ACCESS)

Storchak V.M., Storchak M.V., Tokareva E.M.

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia, Moscow, v.storchak@yandex.ru, punart89@gmail.com, Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), Russia, Moscow, e.m.tokareva@mail.ru

Abstract

Modern ideas about religion affect not only its “classical”, i.e. traditional formations, but also secular quasi-formations – civil religion (J.J. Rousseau). The logic of their reasoning boils down to the following: once purely religious Judeo-Christian content in the process of evolution receives secular aspects of its existence and acts as a civil religion. As a result, Judeo-Christian messianic ideas began to have a quasi-religious character. In Soviet ideology, such a worldview transformation was actualized as the sacralization of the characters of Soviet history: instead of the Christian faith in the Holy Trinity, there appeared faith in the communist “Trinity”, represented by the images of Marx – Lenin – Stalin.

Keywords

civil religion; quasi-religion; sacredness; trinity; Marx; Lenin; Stalin

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For citing: Storchak V.M., Storchak M.V., Tokareva E.M. (2022). «Holy Trinity» of the communist creed in the culture of the Soviet citizen religion. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 4(52), pp. 57-81. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2022.04.04


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