Mongush M.
Abstract. The review describes the monograph by F.L.Sinitsyna «The Red Storm»: the Soviet State and Buddhism in 1917-1946»(St. Petersburg, 2013), which analyzes the Soviet policy towards the Buddhist faiths, as well as the life of the Buddhist community during one of the most difficult periods in Russian history.
Key words:: Buddhism, religious policy, national policy, Buryatia, Kalmykia, Tuva, Mongolia.
Mongush Marina Vasilievna,
Dr. in History,
Leading Researcher,
D.S. Likhachev’s Russian Scientific-Research Institute
of Cultural and Natural Heritage (Moscow),
e-mail: monmarvas@mail.ru