TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garrard,John Gordon
AU  - Garrard,Carol
TI  - Russian Orthodoxy resurgent: faith and power in the new Russia 
SN  - 9781400828999
AV  - BL65.P7 G37 2008eb
U1  - 281.9/47090511 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - AleksiÄ­
KW  - Aleksij (Moskau, Patriarch, II.)
KW  - Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ
KW  - Influence
KW  - fast
KW  - Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
KW  - gnd
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Orthodox
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Auflösung
KW  - Politik
KW  - Sowjetunion
KW  - swd
KW  - Russland
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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