“Remove the bells!..”: the history of bell seizure in the USSR in the late 1920s-1930s: a case study of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Introduction. Based on published and archival sources, this paper examines the history of bell ringing suppression and bell seizure in the USSR during the late 1920s and 1930s, with a focus on the specific case of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as a reflection of nationwide events.