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The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents
Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR
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The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents
Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR
About this book
The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR explores the covert world of secret police surveillance within the Soviet Union, delving into lesser-known grassroots religious life and the collusion of religious communities with the Soviet secret police. These case studies come from Ukraine, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Russia, spanning from the Central Black-Earth region to the Bashkir and Udmurt regions. This book reconstructs the stories of insider agents, focusing on the entanglements and ambiguities of collaboration and secret police surveillance in the Soviet era. These are the stories of the resilience and creative agency of religious believers in times when their faith in God was considered a legal offense. These issues are addressed through an in-depth analysis of previously untapped archival sources from the Soviet secret police archives and eyewitness testimonies.
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Yes, you can access The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents by Tatiana Vagramenko,Nadezhda Beliakova in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Russian History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Policing Religion in the Soviet Union
- Chapter 1: Novice Sania: The Life of Underground Orthodox Communities through the Testimony of a Witness for the Prosecution
- Chapter 2: Secret Agents in the Post-War Russian Orthodox Episcopate: The Case of the Ukrainian SSR
- Chapter 3: Fighting Prophets and Prophecies: The Soviet Secret Police against Pentecostals
- Chapter 4: Agent Recruitment within the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches in Latvia
- Chapter 5: Mykola MuraniāāBerezovskiiāāāSovaā: The KGB Collaborator in Charge of an Underground Church
- Chapter 6: Undercover and in Faith: The Secret Life of a Woman Agent in the Baptist Community of Soviet Kyiv
- Chapter 7: Targeted by the Intelligence Services Yet Sheltered by the Almighty: The Memoirs of Jakob Gƶrzen, Manager of an Underground Baptist Press in the USSR
- Chapter 8: Chain of the Qurāan: Secret Agents among Muslims during the Stalinist Repressions
- Chapter 9: The Espionage Activities of an Embassy Typist: The Fate of Secret Collaborator Emina Akchurina
- Archives: Parameters of the Past and Present
- Understanding the Volume: Between Dual Allegiance in Matthew 6:24 and Divine Authority in Romans 13:1
- Agency and the Impossibility of Ethical Evaluation
- The Role of Chance in Soviet Governance
- Addressing the Void: Theological Engagement with Soviet History
- Index
- About the Contributors