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Garrard, John Gordon.

Russian Orthodoxy resurgent : faith and power in the new Russia / John Garrard & Carol Garrard. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages) : illustrations -

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-313) and index.

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.

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-

ISBN: 9781400828999 1400828996

Source: 22573/cttz596 JSTOR

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA877773 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014646817 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Aleksij, II, patriarca di Mosca e di tutta la Russia, 1929-2008
Aleksiĭ II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, 1929-2008.
Aleksiĭ II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, 1929-2008
Aleksij (Moskau, Patriarch, II.)

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ--Influence.
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ.
Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ
Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-2099
Geschichte 1987-1991.
Geschichte 1992-2007.
Geschichte.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion and politics--History--Russia (Federation)--20th century.
Religion and politics--History--Russia (Federation)--21st century.
Religion et politique--Histoire--Russie--20e siècle.
Religion et politique--Histoire--Russie--21e siècle.
RELIGION--Christianity--Orthodox.
HISTORY--Russia & the Former Soviet Union.--Europe
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Religion and politics
Auflösung
Politik

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Russia (Federation)
Sowjetunion
Russland

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
History

LC Class. No.: BL65.P7 / G37 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 281.9/47090511