| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Prologue: Russian Orthodoxy resurgent / Sergiev Posad -- The end of the Atheist empire -- A new hope -- Rebuilding holy Moscow -- Accursed questions: who is to blame? -- Irreconcilable differences: Orthodoxy and the West -- The Babylonian legacy: exiles, martyrs, and collaborators -- A faith-based army -- Epilogue: twenty years after: from party to patriarch |
| Summary |
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- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-313) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Aleksiĭ II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, 1929-2008.
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Aleksiĭ II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, 1929-2008
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Aleksiĭ II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, 1929-2008 fast |
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Aleksij (Moskau, Patriarch, II.) swd |
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Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ -- Influence
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Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.
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Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ fast |
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Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche gnd |
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Religion and politics -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century
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Religion and politics -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 21st century
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Orthodox.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Religion and politics
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Auflösung
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Politik
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Russia (Federation)
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Sowjetunion
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Russland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Garrard, Carol
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| ISBN |
9781400828999 |
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1400828996 |
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