| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-313) and index. |
| 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- |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| 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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Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ -- Influence.
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Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ. |
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Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ.
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Aleksii, II, 1929-2008 Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. |
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Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov -- Influence. |
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Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkovʹ. |
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Aleksij (Moskau, Patriarch, II.) |
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Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche. |
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Religion and politics -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century.
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Religion and politics. |
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Russia (Federation) |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Religion and politics -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Geschichte 1987-1991 |
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Geschichte 1992-2007 |
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Geschichte |
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1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Garrard, Carol.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Garrard, John Gordon. Russian Orthodoxy resurgent. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008 0691125732 (DLC) 2008005415 (OCoLC)192109623 |
| ISBN |
9781400828999 (electronic book) |
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1400828996 (electronic book) |
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0691125732 |
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9780691125732 |
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