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  • The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe

    Edited by James A. Kapaló, Kinga Povedák ...
    Series series Routledge Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet States
    This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It discusses how religious groups were perceived as dangerous to the totalitarian state whilst also being extremely vulnerable and yet at the same time very resourceful. It explores how this particular dynamic created the concept of the "religious ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity

    Religious Dissent in the Russian and Romanian Borderlands

    by James A. Kapaló ...
    Series series Routledge New Religions
    This book explores the history and evolution of Inochentism, a controversial new religious movement that emerged in the Russian and Romanian borderlands of what is now Moldova and Ukraine in the context of the Russian revolutionary period. Inochentism centres around the charismatic preaching of Inochentie, a monk of the Orthodox Church, who inspired an apocalyptic movement that was soon labelled ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity

    by Ina Merdjanova, Kristin Aune, Milica Bakic-Hayden, Maria Bucur, Ketevan Gurchiani, James Kapalo, Helena Kupari, Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Eleni Sotiriou, Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir0, Detelina Tocheva1 ...
    Series series Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
    Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity fills a significant gap in the sociology of religious practice: Studies focused on women’s religiosity have overlooked Orthodox populations, while studies of Orthodox practice (operating within the dominant theological, historical, and sociological framework) have remained gender-blind.The essays in this collection shed new light on the women who make ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • Black Wind, White Snow

    The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism

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    Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the ... Read more

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  • Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin

    by Michel Eltchaninoff ...
    The Russian president's landmark speeches, interviews and policies borrow heavily from great Russian thinkers past and present, from Peter the Great to Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn. They offer powerful visions of strong leaders and the Russian nation: they value conservatism and the Slavic spirit. They root morality in Orthodoxy, and Russian identity in the historic struggle with the West. Today, ... Read more

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  • Antisemitism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Beller ...
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    Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century. Steven Beller reveals how Antisemitism grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th ... Read more

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  • The Burden of the Past

    History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine

    by Anna Wylegala, Malgorzata Glowacka-Grajper ...
    Essays on how chaos, totalitarianism, and trauma have shaped Ukraine's culture: "A milestone of the scholarship about Eastern European politics of memory." —Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus UniversityIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms ... Read more

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  • Is Russia Fascist?

    Unraveling Propaganda East and West

    by Marlene Laruelle ...
    In Is Russia Fascist?, Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of "fascism" has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putin's regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism, supposedly evidenced by Russia's annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism, attacks on liberal democratic values, and its support for far-right movements in Europe. But at the same ... Read more

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  • The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust

    by Ion Popa ...
    Series series Studies in Antisemitism
    "An important book" that delves into the role of religious authorities in Romania during the Holocaust, and the continuing effects today ( Antisemitism Studies).In 1930, about 750,000 Jews called Romania home. At the end of World War II, approximately half of them survived. Only recently, after the fall of Communism, are details of the history of the Holocaust in Romania coming to light.Ion Popa ... Read more

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  • Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction

    by Steven Beller ...
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    This Very Short Introduction examines and untangles the various strands of antisemitism seen throughout history, from medieval religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the 21st century. Steven Beller reveals how the phenomenon grew as a political and ideological movement in the 19th century, how it reached it its dark apogee in the worst genocide in modern history - the Holocaust - and how ... Read more

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  • Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond

    New Histories of an Old Accusation

    Edited by Eugene M. Avrutin, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Robert Weinberg ...
    A collection of essays exploring the history of an antisemitic accusation that haunted Jewish people in Europe and Russia, and how it spread.This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel, the ... Read more

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