The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity
Author: Francis McCullagh
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 458
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Author: Francis McCullagh
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 458
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 401
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dominic Erdozain
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1609092287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the deficiencies of the Soviet leadership or the chaos of a "command" economy. Beneath the rhetoric of scientific communism was a culture of intellectual and cultural dissidence, which may be regarded as the "prehistory of perestroika." This volume explores the contribution of Christian thought and belief to this culture of dissent and survival, showing how religious and secular streams of resistance joined in an unexpected and powerful partnership. The essays in The Dangerous God seek to shed light on the dynamic and subversive capacities of religious faith in a context of brutal oppression, while acknowledging the often-collusive relationship between clerical elites and the Soviet authorities. Against the Marxist notion of the "ideological" function of religion, the authors set the example of people for whom faith was more than an opiate; against an enduring mythology of secularization, they propose the centrality of religious faith in the intellectual, political, and cultural life of the late modern era. This volume will appeal to specialists on religion in Soviet history as well as those interested in the history of religion under totalitarian regimes.
Author: Francis McCullagh
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Luxmoore
Publisher: Gracewing
Published: 2016-02-10
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781781820247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eight decades from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Iron Curtain brought a wave of anti-religious repression comparable to anything seen in the fabled persecutions of the first Christian centuries. It inflicted sufferings and agonies equalling those of the darkest periods; and it stimulated writings and reflections paralleling the most insightful and moving from Christian history. This first volume of The God of the Gulag shows how the paradigms of persecution and martyrdom were established in the Early Church, when Christians were hounded by the Roman state as a threat to the established order-and how they reappeared when anti-Christian persecution returned on a mass scale after the French Revolution, as new hostile states and popular movements tried again to dismantle the power and influence of the Christian Church. Drawing on accounts and documents in many languages, it examines the first phase of communist rule after the 1917 Russian revolution, when a ruthless campaign was launched to destroy all organised religion and redirect spiritual strivings towards an absolute subservience to the Marxist vision. It looks at how Christians attempted to defend the Church and witness to their faith as the communist dictatorship was extended under Stalin to post-War Eastern Europe, bringing a new wave of arrests, trials and purges.
Author: Fred Arthur McKenzie
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: D. Kirby
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-12-13
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1403919577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough seen widely as the twentieth-century's great religious war, as a conflict between the god-fearing and the godless, the religious dimension of the Cold War has never been subjected to a scholarly critique. This unique study shows why religion is a key Cold War variable. A specially commissioned collection of new scholarship, it provides fresh insights into the complex nature of the Cold War. It has profound resonance today with the resurgence of religion as a political force in global society.
Author: Daniel Peris
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780801434853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA member of the first generation of scholars allowed access to formerly closed Soviet archives, Daniel Peris offers a new perspective on the Bolshevik regime's antireligious policy from 1917 until 1941. He focuses on the activities of the League of the Militant Godless, the organization founded by the regime in 1925 to spearhead its efforts to promote atheism and he presents the League's propaganda, activities, and personnel at both the central and the provincial levels. On the basis of his research in archives in rural Pskov and industrial Iaroslavl', as well as in the central party and state archives in Moscow, Peris emphasizes the transformation of the ideological agenda formulated in Moscow as it moved to its intended audience. Storming the Heavens places the League within the broader context of a Bolshevik political culture that often acted at cross purposes to undermine the regime's stated goals. The League's lack of success, argues Peris, reflects the bureaucratic orientation of Bolshevik political culture, particularly in how it pursued the radical social vision of 1917. His book provides a framework for undertanding secularization in revolutionary contexts as well as contributing to the on-going reassessments of the Bolshevik era.
Author: Linda Woodhead
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0199687749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a short, accessible analysis of Christianity that focuses on its social and cultural diversity as well as its historical dimensions.
Author: Vladimir Grigorʹevich Chertkov
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 98
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