Jeffrey S. Hardy

Finding God in the Gulag (eBook, PDF)

A History of Christianity in the Soviet Penal System

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Soviet Communist Party, with help of the secret police, attempted to completely eliminate religion from Soviet society by, in part, imprisoning believers and attempting to "re-educate" them in the labor camps of the infamous Gulag. Finding God in the Gulag tells the story of how imprisoned Christians nevertheless found ways to pray, read scripture, sing hymns, celebrate Easter, and commune with their fellow believers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197751688
• Artikelnr.: 72258730

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey S. Hardy is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is the author of The Gulag After Stalin: Redefining Punishment in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1953-1964 and The Soviet Gulag: History and Memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Section I: The Early Soviet Era, 1917-1929
1. Separating Church and State in Bolshevik Prisons
2. The Spiritual Life of Solovki
Section II: The Stalin Era, 1929-1953
3. The War against Religion in the Gulag
4. Belief and Disbelief from the Great Terror to Stalin's Death
5. Western Worshippers and Gulag Gangsters
Section III: The Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1991
6. Khrushchev's Reforms and the Camp for Sectarians
7. Religious Dissidents under Brezhnev
8. Christianity as a Re-educational Program
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index