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The Forgotten
This remarkable work traces the history of Soviet Catholicism from its rich life in 1914 through its tentative fate in the first sixty years of the USSR. Rev. Zugger tells of the faithful men and women shackled by dictatorship, doomed to deportation, and abandoned by their own church in the west. Soviet Russia was an empire born of atheism with religion viewed as a threat to the state’s notion of individualism. By 1932, dictator Joseph Stalin firmly declared that religion would be extinct in the USSR within five years. In this compelling volume, Zugger details the Soviet campaign against Catholicism among many ethnic groups and worshippers whose devotion would not be shaken. He shows how they kept faith alive in prison camps, in remote villages, in monastery prisons, and in the secrecy of their homes, where the light of faith continued to burn brightly while churches crumbled or became dance halls and office buildings. This is the first book in English to recount the fate of Catholic Russia and the church in the various lands conquered by Soviet rule. It is at once a memorial to those who perished, a tribute to those who survived, and a testament to the enduring power of faith.
The Catholic Church and Soviet Russia, 1917-39
This book, based on extensive research including in the Russian and Vatican archives, charts the development of relations between the Catholic Church and the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the death of Pope Pius XI in 1939. It provides background information on the animosity between the Orthodox and Catholic churches and moves towards reconciliation between them, discusses Soviet initiatives to eradicate religion in the Soviet Union and spread atheist international communism throughout the world, and explores the Catholic Church’s attempts to survive in the face of persecution within the Soviet Union and extend itself. Throughout the book reveals much new detail on the complex interaction between these two opposing bodies and their respective ideologies.
The Writer's Market
Describes thousands of markets for writers, covering magazines, publishers, syndicates, and contests; with information on submission requirements, pay scale, and freelance work, and listings of editors and agents.
Slavic Review
"American quarterly of Soviet and East European studies" (varies).
Spioni la Vatican
Non abbiate paura! Nu vă fie teamă! Cuvintele rostite de papa Ioan Paul al II-lea în octombrie 1978, la inaugurarea pontificatului său, aveau să trezească în sufletele polonezilor și ale tuturor celor oprimați de comunism dorința de a fi liberi și curajul de a lupta pentru libertate. În următorii ani, papa a devenit cel mai puternic simbol al luptei anticomuniste. Uniunea Sovietică îl considera pe Ioan Paul al II-lea (și, implicit, Biserica Catolică) o amenințare la adresa stabilității în Europa de Est și inamicul numărul unu al statului. Deloc surprinzător, KGB-ul a pus la punct o rețea impresionantă de spioni și agenți dubli și chiar a încercat să-l asasineze...
The Gates of Hell
The gates of hell shall not prevail. Decimated by war, revolution, and famine, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Russia was in critical condition in 1921. In The Gates of Hell, Matthew Heise recounts the bravery and suffering of German--Russian Lutherans during the period between the two great world wars. These stories tell of ordinary Christians who remained faithful to death in the face of state persecution. Christians in Russia had dark days characterized by defeat, but God preserved his church. Against all human odds, the church would outlast the man--made sandcastles of communist utopianism. The Gates of Hell is a wonderful testimony to the enduring power of God's word, Christ's church, and the Spirit's faithfulness.
A Catholic Cold War
This book is the first biography in 42 years of the priest and educator who became one of the most important political forces in America's Cold War against communism.
