Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigns and the Suppression of American Jazz Ran in Parallel, Historian Argues
An Azerbaijani historian's second article on religion in Soviet Azerbaijan examines how the 20th Communist Party Congress of 1956 and Khrushchev's 'secret speech' shaped both anti-religious policy and cultural repression, drawing a parallel between the suppression of Islam and the crackdown on American jazz as ideologically suspect influences.
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