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Russian Orthodoxy resurgent : faith and power in the new Russia / John Garrard & Carol Garrard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400828999
  • 1400828996
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Russian Orthodoxy resurgent.DDC classification:
  • 281.9/47090511 22
LOC classification:
  • BL65.P7 G37 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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-
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)355030

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.

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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-