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The cold war and the ideological struggle on the "religious front" : Some patterns of Soviet propaganda. / Shakhnovich, Marianna.

In: Gosudarstvo, Religiia, Tserkov' v Rossii i za Rubezhom/State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, Vol. 35, No. 1, 01.01.2017, p. 164-184.

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Shakhnovich, M 2017, 'The cold war and the ideological struggle on the "religious front": Some patterns of Soviet propaganda', Gosudarstvo, Religiia, Tserkov' v Rossii i za Rubezhom/State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 164-184. https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2017-35-1-164-184

APA

Shakhnovich, M. (2017). The cold war and the ideological struggle on the "religious front": Some patterns of Soviet propaganda. Gosudarstvo, Religiia, Tserkov' v Rossii i za Rubezhom/State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, 35(1), 164-184. https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2017-35-1-164-184

Vancouver

Shakhnovich M. The cold war and the ideological struggle on the "religious front": Some patterns of Soviet propaganda. Gosudarstvo, Religiia, Tserkov' v Rossii i za Rubezhom/State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide. 2017 Jan 1;35(1):164-184. https://doi.org/10.22394/2073-7203-2017-35-1-164-184

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Shakhnovich, Marianna. / The cold war and the ideological struggle on the "religious front" : Some patterns of Soviet propaganda. In: Gosudarstvo, Religiia, Tserkov' v Rossii i za Rubezhom/State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide. 2017 ; Vol. 35, No. 1. pp. 164-184.

BibTeX

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