Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003 - 407 стор.
Histories of the USSR during World War II generally portray the Kremlin's restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church as an attempt by an ideologically bankrupt regime to appeal to Russian nationalism in order to counter the mortal threat of Nazism. Here,
 

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Religion and Nationality The Soviet Dilemma 19391941
27
Stalins Holy War Begins 19411943
51
Fighting the Holy War
91
A Holy Hatred toward the Enemy The Church as Servant of Soviet Foreign Policy 19421943
93
A Vatican of Sorts
123
The Gatherer of the Ukrainian Lands The Church and the Restoration of Soviet Power in the Western Borderlands
163
Selling the Alliance
203
You Made Me Love You Selling the Alliance Begins
205
Amplifying the Soviet Voice
245
Guardians of the Truth
279
Conclusion
315
NOTES
337
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED
387
INDEX
395
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Сторінка 20 - The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better. We must teach these people a lesson right now, so that they will not dare even to think of any resistance for several decades.
Сторінка 24 - Communism is intrinsically wrong, and no one who would save Christian civilization may collaborate with it in any undertaking whatsoever:
Сторінка 20 - It is precisely now and only now, when in the starving regions people are eating human flesh, and hundreds if not thousands of corpses are littering the roads, that we can (and therefore must) carry out the confiscation of church valuables with the most savage and merciless energy:

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Steven Merritt Miner is professor of history at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He is author of Between Churchill and Stalin: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance.

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