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Women of the Catacombs

Name: Women of the Catacombs
Brand: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781501754401
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781501754401

Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia

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Edited and translated by Wallace L. Daniel, Foreword by Roy R. Robson, Preface by Archpriest Aleksandr Men, Introduction by Wallace L. Daniel
Imprint: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: June 13, 2021
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 450 g
Pages: 277

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The memoirs presented in Women of the Catacombs offer a rare close-up account of the underground Orthodox community and its priests during some of the most difficult years in Russian history. The catacomb church in the Soviet Union came into existence in the 1920s and played a significant part in Russian national life for nearly fifty years. Adherents to the Orthodox faith often referred to the catacomb church as the "light shining in the dark." Women of the Catacombs provides a first-hand portrait of lived religion in its social, familial, and cultural setting during this tragic period. Until now, scholars have had only brief, scattered fragments of information about Russia's illegal church organization that claimed to protect the purity of the Orthodox tradition. Vera Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia and Elena Semenovna Men, who joined the church as young women, offer evidence on how Russian Orthodoxy remained a viable, alternative presence in Soviet society, when all political, educational, and cultural institutions attempted to indoctrinate Soviet citizens with an atheistic perspective. Wallace L. Daniel's translation not only sheds light on Russia's religious and political history, but also shows how two educated women maintained their personal integrity in times when prevailing political and social headwinds moved in an opposite direction.

Wallace L. Daniel is Distinguished University Professor of History at Mercer University. He is author of Russia's Uncommon Prophet and The Orthodox Church and Civil Society in Russia.

1. I: Fr. Serafim by Vera Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia Ante Lucem One Must Take up the Cross White Chrysanthemums The Grace of the Holy Spirit Holding on to Christ's Garments Go to Sarov In Ravaged Sarov It Will Be More Difficult The War The Last Days and the End 2. II: Fr. Pyotr Shipkov by Vera Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia In Zagorsk during the War On the End of the War. The Rebirth of the Church Fr. Pyotr in Exile (Letters) Return from Exile Illness and the Final Days in the Life of Fr. Pyotr From the Letters of V. Ia. Vasilevskaia to N. V. Trapani 3. III: My Journey by Elena Semenovna Men

[W]hy Christianity survived persecution in the Soviet Union, is to a great extent explained by the lives and religious faith of those presented to us in Women of the Catacombs with expert commentary and explanations in an introduction and footnotes by the editor, Dr Wallace Daniel, who also published a biography of Fr Aleksandr in 2016. (Church Times) Reading these textsdoes highlight the distinctiveness of Elena and Vera's perspectives as believers, providing a rare insight into an alternative culture. Thanks to the contribution of Wallace Daniel and his collaborators, the perspectives of these two remarkable women can enrich our understanding of everyday life under extraordinary circumstances. (The Russian Review)

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