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Women of the Catacombs: Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) - Tapa blanda

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9781501754401: Women of the Catacombs: Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1501754408 ISBN 13: 9781501754401
Editorial: Northern Illinois University Press, 2021

Sinopsis

The memoirs presented in Women of the Catacombs offer a rare close-up account of the underground Orthodox community and its priests during some of the most difficult years in Russian history. The catacomb church in the Soviet Union came into existence in the 1920s and played a significant part in Russian national life for nearly fifty years. Adherents to the Orthodox faith often referred to the catacomb church as the "light shining in the dark." Women of the Catacombs provides a first-hand portrait of lived religion in its social, familial, and cultural setting during this tragic period.

Until now, scholars have had only brief, scattered fragments of information about Russia's illegal church organization that claimed to protect the purity of the Orthodox tradition. Vera Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia and Elena Semenovna Men, who joined the church as young women, offer evidence on how Russian Orthodoxy remained a viable, alternative presence in Soviet society, when all political, educational, and cultural institutions attempted to indoctrinate Soviet citizens with an atheistic perspective. Wallace L. Daniel's translation not only sheds light on Russia's religious and political history, but also shows how two educated women maintained their personal integrity in times when prevailing political and social headwinds moved in an opposite direction.

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Wallace L. Daniel is Distinguished University Professor of History at Mercer University. He is author of Russia's Uncommon Prophet and The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia.

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Editorial
Northern Illinois University Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1501754408
ISBN 13 
9781501754401
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Número de páginas
252
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