Freedom of Conscience in (Post)Soviet Space

Julie K. deGraffenried is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Baylor University and author of Sacrificing Childhood. Michael Long is Professor of Russian and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Baylor University and author of Making History. Xenia Dennen helped found the Keston Institute in 1969 and became chair in 2002. She was founding editor of its journal and edits The Keston Newsletter.

Introduction: On Tributes and Truth-Speaking 1. Part 1: Reflections on Michael Bourdeaux and Keston College 2. Keston College and ReligiousSamizdat: Documenting the Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union 3. The Truth Will Set You Free: The Theological Foundations of Michael Bourdeaux's Commitment to Religious Liberty Part 2: New Perspectives on Religion in the Soviet Union 4. The Awakening of Soviet Youth: TheQuest for Authenticity in the 1960s and 1970s 5. Youth Religiosity: An Ideological Challenge to the Soviet Authorities in the 1970s-1980s 6. Protest from the Margins: A Human Rights Campaign Led by Evangelical Women in the Soviet Union 7. Seeing Is (Un)believing: Anticlericalism in Soviet Antireligious Part 3: Freedom of Conscience beyond the Soviet Union 8. Overcoming One's Own Fear: Overcoming One's Own Fear: Exile Publishing, Samizdat, andthe Illegal Transport of Literature to Czechoslovakia, 1971-1989 9. The Unhappiest Barrack in theSoviet Bloc: Suicide, Well-Being, and Church-State Relations in Socialist Hungary 10. The Russian Orthodox Church: Thirty Years of Post-Communist Development