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Princeton University Press 2008-09-14 Hardcover Good Large black pen mark, bottom of page block. Small ink mark, top of page block. Dust jacket crinkled at edges, and has a tiny rip at top corner of front flap. Text free from marks, highlighting and dogears. A solid pre-owned copy.
Princeton University Press, Date: 2008-09-14. Hardcover. Good. Large black pen mark, bottom of page block. Small ink mark, top of page block. Dust jacket crinkled at edges, and has a tiny rip at top corner of front flap. Text free from marks, highlighting and dogears. A solid pre-owned copy. 2008. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691125732 9780691125732 [US]
Princeton University Press, Date: 2008. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library. Otherwise pristine. 2008. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691125732 9780691125732 [US]
ISBN10: 0691125732, ISBN13: 9780691125732, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.4 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
ISBN10: 0691125732, ISBN13: 9780691125732, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover First Edition 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 ...
Princeton University Press, Date: 2008-09-14. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 2008. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691125732 9780691125732 [US]
ISBN10: 0691125732, ISBN13: 9780691125732, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within 1.4 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
ISBN10: 0691125732, ISBN13: 9780691125732, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover First Edition 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 ...
ISBN10: 0691125732, ISBN13: 9780691125732, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 1.4 [Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
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