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Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent - Faith and Power in the New Russia (Paperback)
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Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent - Faith and Power in the New Russia (Paperback)
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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--is reconstituting a new national idea in the church's own
image. In the new Russia, the former KGB who run the
country--Vladimir Putin among them--proclaim the cross, not the
hammer and sickle. Meanwhile, a majority of Russians now embrace
the Orthodox faith with unprecedented fervor. The Garrards trace
how Aleksy orchestrated this transformation, positioning his church
to inherit power once held by the Communist Party and to become the
dominant ethos of the military and government. They show how the
revived church under Aleksy prevented mass violence during the
post-Soviet turmoil, and how Aleksy astutely linked the church with
the army and melded Russian patriotism and faith. Russian Orthodoxy
Resurgent argues that the West must come to grips with this complex
and contradictory resurgence of the Orthodox faith, because it is
the hidden force behind Russia's domestic and foreign policies
today.
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