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Book Faith on Trial in Russia

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  • Author : Michael Bourdeaux
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 9780060608958
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Faith on Trial in Russia written by Michael Bourdeaux and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian Christians on Trial

Download or read book Russian Christians on Trial written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Faith on Trial in Russia

Download or read book Faith on Trial in Russia written by Michael Bourdeaux and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent

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  • Author : John Garrard
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2008-09-14
  • ISBN : 9780691125732
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent written by John Garrard and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's moral weight helped defeat the 1991 coup against Gorbachev launched by Communist Party hardliners. The Soviet Union disintegrated, leaving Russians searching for a usable past. The Garrards reveal how Patriarch Aleksy II--a former KGB officer and the man behind the church's successful defeat of the coup--is reconstituting a new national idea in the church's own image. In the new Russia, the former KGB who run the country--Vladimir Putin among them--proclaim the cross, not the hammer and sickle. Meanwhile, a majority of Russians now embrace the Orthodox faith with unprecedented fervor. The Garrards trace how Aleksy orchestrated this transformation, positioning his church to inherit power once held by the Communist Party and to become the dominant ethos of the military and government. They show how the revived church under Aleksy prevented mass violence during the post-Soviet turmoil, and how Aleksy astutely linked the church with the army and melded Russian patriotism and faith. Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent argues that the West must come to grips with this complex and contradictory resurgence of the Orthodox faith, because it is the hidden force behind Russia's domestic and foreign policies today.

Book With God in Russia

Download or read book With God in Russia written by Walter Ciszek and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Walter Ciszek, S.J., author of the best-selling He Leadeth Me, tells here the gripping, astounding story of his twenty-three years in Russian prison camps in Siberia, how he was falsely imprisoned as an "American spy", the incredible rigors of daily life as a prisoner, and his extraordinary faith in God and commitment to his priestly vows and vocation. He said Mass under cover, in constant danger of death. He heard confession of hundreds who could have betrayed him; he aided spiritually many who could have gained by exposing him. This is a remarkable story of personal experience. It would be difficult to write fiction that could honestly portray the heroic patience, endurance, fortitude and complete trust in God lived by Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J.

Book Christian Religion in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Christian Religion in the Soviet Union written by Christel Lane and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christel Lane has written the first sociological study of religion in a communist and militantly atheist society. Christian Religion in the Soviet Union is the result of a detailed examination of Soviet sociological sources and the legally and illegally published reports of religious bodies or individuals, backed up by the observations of the author and of other Western visitors to the USSR. Dr. Lane attempts to assess the impact of the intellectual and material culture of Soviet society on Christian religion. She analyses the religious life in the contemporary Christian churches and sects, describing the scope of their membership and its social composition, the religious commitment of believers and their social and political orientations. Christian Religion in the Soviet Union will be central reading for students of religion in modern industrial society who are working within the disciplines of sociology, comparative religion or theology. It will also appeal to those studying Soviet society from a more general sociological perspective and to a wide readership interested in the contest between Christian religion and Marxist-Leninist ideology.

Book Conscience on Trial

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  • Author : Hiroaki Kuromiya
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2012-03-07
  • ISBN : 1442661089
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Conscience on Trial written by Hiroaki Kuromiya and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscience on Trial reveals the startling story, kept secret for sixty years, of ordinary citizens caught up in the elaborate machinery of political terror in Stalinist Ukraine. In 1952, fourteen poor, barely literate Seventh-Day Adventists living on the margins of Soviet society were clandestinely tried for allegedly advocating pacifism and adhering to the Saturday Sabbath. The only written records of this trial were sealed in the KGB archives in Kiev, and this harrowing episode has until now been unknown even within the Ukraine. Hiroaki Kuromiya has carefully analyzed these newly discovered documents, and in doing so, reveals a fascinating picture of private life and religious belief under the atheist Stalinist regime. Kuromiya convincingly elucidates the mechanism of the Soviet secret police and explores the minds of non-conformist believers -precursors to the revival of dissidence after Stalin's death in 1953.

Book From the Risale i Nur Collection  The words

Download or read book From the Risale i Nur Collection The words written by Said Nursi and published by www.nurpublishers.com. This book was released on 1992 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aida of Leningrad

Download or read book Aida of Leningrad written by Michael Bourdeaux and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1976 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Faith of the Russian Evangelicals

Download or read book The Faith of the Russian Evangelicals written by John Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Religion and Politics in Russia  A Reader

Download or read book Religion and Politics in Russia A Reader written by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia is not only vast, it is also culturally diverse, the core of an empire that spanned Eurasia. In addition to the majority Russian Orthodox and various other Christian groups, the Russian Federation includes large communities of Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and members of other religious groups, some with ancient historical roots. All are in a state of ferment, and securing formal state recognition for specific communities is often daunting. This collection provides entry into the diversity of Russia's religious communities. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer's introduction to the volume illuminates major political, social, and cultural-anthropological trends. The book is organized by religious tradition or identity, with further thematic perspectives on each set of readings. The authors include ethnologists, sociologists, political analysts, and religious leaders from many regions of the Federation. They analyze the changing dynamics of religion and politics within each community and in the context of the current drive to recentralize both political and religious authority in Moscow. Topical coverage extends from reassertions of Russian Orthodoxy to activities of Christian and Muslim missionaries to the revival of many other religions, including indigenous shamanic ones.

Book Authority  Power and Policy in the USSR

Download or read book Authority Power and Policy in the USSR written by T. H. Rigby and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents in the Soviet Union written by S. P. De Boer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1982-05-26 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Criminal Becomes a Christian in a Russian Prison

Download or read book A Criminal Becomes a Christian in a Russian Prison written by Vasilij Ivanovič Kozlov and published by Calgary : Mission to Europe's Millions. This book was released on 1971 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christian Martyrdom in Russia

Download or read book Christian Martyrdom in Russia written by Vladimir Grigorʹevich Chertkov and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crime and Punishment in Russia

Download or read book Crime and Punishment in Russia written by Jonathan Daly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime and Punishment in Russia surveys the evolution of criminal justice in Russia during a span of more than 300 years, from the early modern era to the present day. Maps, organizational charts, a list of important dates, and a glossary help the reader to navigate key institutional, legal, political, and cultural developments in this evolution. The book approaches Russia both on its own terms and in light of changes in Europe and the wider West, to which Russia's rulers and educated elites continuously looked for legal models and inspiration. It examines the weak advancement of the rule of the law over the period and analyzes the contrasts and seeming contradictions of a society in which capital punishment was sharply restricted in the mid-1700s, while penal and administrative exile remained heavily applied until 1917 and even beyond. Daly also provides concise political, social, and economic contextual detail, showing how the story of crime and punishment fits into the broader narrative of modern Russian history. This is an important and useful book for all students of modern Russian history as well as of the history of crime and punishment in modern Europe.

Book I Found God in Soviet Russia

Download or read book I Found God in Soviet Russia written by John H. Noble and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences of a young American Protestant layman, captured by the Russians and held a prisoner for nearly ten years.