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Title Women of the catacombs : memoirs of the underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia / edited and translated by Wallace L. Daniel, foreword by Roy R. Robson, preface by Archpriest Aleksandr Men
Published Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xxxix, 207 pages) : illustrations
Series NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
Contents Fr. Serafim -- Fr. Pyotr Shipkov -- My Journey -- My Childhood and Youth
Summary "This book offers an intimate portrait of two courageous young Russian women and their struggles to maintain their integrity and personal values in Stalin's Russia, from the 1930s to the 1950s" -- Provided by publisher
Analysis Russian women in Stalin's Russia, Russian Women in World War II, the Orthodox Church and Russian society, Saint Serafim of Sarov and Russian Saints and Martyrs, Catacomb Church
Notes Translation of selections from Vera Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia's Katakomby XX veka
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 19, 2021)
Subject Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ -- Soviet Union -- Biography
SUBJECT Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ fast
Subject Christian martyrs -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Persecution -- Soviet Union -- History
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Christian martyrs
Persecution
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Church history. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125711
Subject Soviet Union
Genre/Form Biographies
Church history
History
Form Electronic book
Author Daniel, Wallace L., editor, translator.
Robson, Roy R., writer of foreword.
Menʹ, Aleksandr, 1935-1990, writer of preface.
Based on (work): Vasilevskai︠a︡, V. I︠A︡. (Vera I︠A︡kovlevna). Katakomby XX veka
LC no. 2020016284
ISBN 9781501754067
1501754068
9781501754050
150175405X