Religion and power in Russia in the 20th-21st centuries: three models of state-confessional relations

The article discusses the succession of three models of state-confessional policy in Russia in the 20th-21st centuries. The author marked that the model of monarchist Russia was characterized by the clerical (religious) state, for the bourgeois period of Russian history - the model was characterized by the reforms, which ensured religious freedom, for the Soviet era - building an atheistic state. Special attention is paid to the modern period - to the process of formation of new (separating, and then cooperative) model of state-confessional relations.