Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Struggle for Religious Survival in the Soviet Union
Author: Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union
Author: Barbara MartinPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000930432
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Based on a broad range of new sources on the daily life of religious communities, including material from regional archives and oral history, it shows that religion not only survived Soviet anti-religious repression, but also adapted to new conditions. Going beyond traditional views about a mere "returned of the repressed", the book shows how new forms of religiosity and religious socialisation emerged, as new generations born into atheist families turned to religion in search of new meaning, long before perestroika facilitated this process. In addition, the book examines anew religious activism and transnational networks between Soviet believers and Western organisations during the Cold War, explores the religious dimension of Soviet female activism, and shifts the focus away from the non-religious human rights movement and from religious institutions to ordinary believers.
Religion in the Soviet Union
Author: Walter KolarzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Comprehensive survey of the situation of various religious groups in the U.S.S.R., including Christian, Moslem, Buddhist, Jewish, with contemporary developments under the Khrushchev regime.
Dissident for Life
Author: Koenraad de WolfPublisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781467437745
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This gripping book tells the largely unknown story of longtime Russian dissident Alexander Ogorodnikov -- from Communist youth to religious dissident, in the Gulag and back again. Ogorodnikov's courage has touched people from every walk of life, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher.In the 1970s Ogorodnikov performed a feat without precedent in the Soviet Union: he organized thousands of Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christians in an underground group called the Christian Seminar. When the KGB gave him the option to leave the Soviet Union rather than face the Gulag, he firmly declined because he wanted to change "his" Russia from the inside out. His willingness to sacrifice himself and be imprisoned meant leaving behind his wife and newborn child.Ogorodnikov spent nine years in the Gulag, barely surviving the horrors he encountered there. Despite KGB harassment and persecution after his release, he refused to compromise his convictions and went on to found the first free school in the Soviet Union, the first soup kitchen, and the first private shelter for orphans, among other accomplishments.Today this man continues to carry on his struggle against government detainments and atrocities, often alone. Readers will be amazed and inspired by Koenraad De Wolf's authoritative account of Ogorodnikov's life and work.
Stalin's Peasants
Author: Sheila FitzpatrickPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195104592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Drawing on Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, this work analyzes peasants' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village
Revelations from the Russian Archives
Author: Diane P. KoenkerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781780393803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Religion and the Cold War
Author: D. KirbyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403919577
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Although seen widely as the twentieth-century's great religious war, as a conflict between the god-fearing and the godless, the religious dimension of the Cold War has never been subjected to a scholarly critique. This unique study shows why religion is a key Cold War variable. A specially commissioned collection of new scholarship, it provides fresh insights into the complex nature of the Cold War. It has profound resonance today with the resurgence of religion as a political force in global society.
Lost in the Taiga
Author: Vasiliĭ PeskovPublisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The sole surviving family member, the daughter Agafia, lives by herself in the Lykov family cabin to this day.
Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition
Author: Roland BoerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900439477X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition, Roland Boer presents key moments in the 2,000 year tradition of Christian communism, moving from its roots in New Testament texts to unique developments in North Korea.
Everyday Stalinism
Author: Sheila FitzpatrickPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195050002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.
