RT Book
T1 Russian Orthodoxy resurgent: faith and power in the new Russia
A1 Garrard, John Gordon 1934-
A2 Garrard, Carol
LA English
PP Princeton
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/665182317
AB 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
OP 326
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-313) and index
CN BL65.P7
SN 0691125732
SN 9781400828999
SN 9780691125732
K1 Aleksiĭ : II : Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia : 1929-2008
K1 Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ : Influence
K1 Russkai︠a︡ pravoslavnai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ
K1 Religion And Politics : Russia (Federation) : History : 21st century
K1 Religion And Politics : Russia (Federation) : History : 20th century