United Council of Religious Communities and Groups

The United Council of Religious Communities and Groups (Russian: Объединенный совет религиозных общин и групп), also known as OSROG, was a committee of representatives of various minority religious movements within the Russian SFSR created in 1918 by Vladimir Chertkov. In January 1919, the Council received an official role as a decree of the Council of People's Commissars charged it with the task of evaluating claims of conscientious objection to the revolutionary government's conscription regime.[1][2] However, the decree always had opposition within the Soviet hierarchy (its publication was delayed by nearly five months), and other decrees and rulings from late 1920 onwards steadily restricted its activities, including its right to evaluate claims of conscientious objection. As a result, the Russian Baptist Union, one of the main participants in OSROG, decided in December 1921 that continued involvement was no longer in its interests.[2] It is not certain exactly when OSROG stopped operating altogether: suggested dates vary between 1922 and 1928, with 1923 being the most likely.[3]

## References

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1. ^ Coleman, Heather J. (2005). Russian Baptists And Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929. Indiana University Press. p. 183\. ISBN 9780253345721.
2. ^ a b Steeves, Paul D. (1999). "Russian Baptists and the Military Question, 1918-1929". In Brock, Peter; Socknat, Thomas Paul (eds.). Challenge to Mars: Essays on Pacifism from 1918 to 1945. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press. pp. 21–40. ISBN 9780802043719. Retrieved July 28, 2012.
3. ^ Brock, Peter (2006). "Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan Antimilitarist Movement". Against the Draft: Essays on Conscientious Objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press. p. 323\. ISBN 9780802090737. Retrieved July 28, 2012.

### Additional sources

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* Steeves, Paul D. (1988). The Modern encyclopedia of religions in Russia and the Soviet Union, Vol. 5. Academic International Press (Gulf Breeze, Fl.). ISBN 9780875691060. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
* "The Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. 83". Goshen College, Mennonite Historical Society (Goshen, Ind.). 2009. Retrieved July 23, 2012.
* Gabel, Paul; Tapp, Robert B. (2006). The Fate Of Democracy. Prometheus Books (Amherst, N.Y.). pp. 429–30. ISBN 9781591023067. Retrieved July 23, 2012.

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