Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New RussiaRussian 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. |
Contents
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A New Hope | 36 |
Rebuilding Holy Moscow | 70 |
Accursed Questions Who Is to Blame? | 101 |
Irreconcilable Differences Orthodoxy and the West | 141 |
The Babylonian Legacy Exiles Martyrs and Collaborators | 181 |
A FaithBased Army | 207 |
Twenty Years After From Party to Patriarch | 242 |
Translated Documents | 255 |
Authors Letter to the New York Times May 27 1990 | 261 |
Notes | 263 |
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Other editions - View all
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia John Garrard,Carol Garrard Limited preview - 2008 |
Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia John Garrard,Carol Garrard Limited preview - 2014 |