The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin through Stalin

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Syracuse University Press, 1 kwi 2001 - 592
This remarkable work traces the history of Soviet Catholicism from its rich life in 1914 through its tentative fate in the first sixty years of the USSR. Rev. Zugger tells of the faithful men and women shackled by dictatorship, doomed to deportation, and abandoned by their own church in the west. Soviet Russia was an empire born of atheism with religion viewed as a threat to the state’s notion of individualism. By 1932, dictator Joseph Stalin firmly declared that religion would be extinct in the USSR within five years. In this compelling volume, Zugger details the Soviet campaign against Catholicism among many ethnic groups and worshippers whose devotion would not be shaken. He shows how they kept faith alive in prison camps, in remote villages, in monastery prisons, and in the secrecy of their homes, where the light of faith continued to burn brightly while churches crumbled or became dance halls and office buildings. This is the first book in English to recount the fate of Catholic Russia and the church in the various lands conquered by Soviet rule. It is at once a memorial to those who perished, a tribute to those who survived, and a testament to the enduring power of faith.
 

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The Inheritance
7
The Silver Mosaic of the Church in Russia
21
The Catholic Communities of Imperial Russia Part
35
The Catholic Communities of Imperial Russia Part
65
World War I
93
And the Flood Swept Them All Away November 1917
105
The Civil War in the West
114
The Golgotha of Siberia and the Far East 19181922
133
Secret Agent and Secret Hierarchy
228
The Destruction of Rural Life and the Great Change
241
The Great Terror and the Annihilation of the Church December
255
The Crucifixion of Poland
281
The Great Patriotic War
309
The Baltic States Bukovina and Bessarabia 19401941
328
Catholic Life in the NaziOccupied Baltic States
343
Revival in Belorussia
350

SurvivalBut What Next? 19201922
140
Germany the Vatican
144
The Passion Bearers of the Russian Catholic Exarchate
157
Icicles Formed Fantastic Gargoyles above the Altars
170
The Cieplak Trial and Disruption of the Church
180
Catholics in the Gulag
190
The New Economic Policy 19211928
207
The Flight to the West
362
Catholicism and Soviet Expansion into Europe
371
Drawing in the Great Net of Stalin 1945
380
The War to Destroy the Eastern Catholic Churches
416
A Catholics and Jews in the NaziOccupied Soviet Territories
447
B Harbin and the Soviet Catholics of Manchuria
459
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Rev. Christopher Lawrence Zugger was ordained as a Catholic priest of the Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Church in 1981. He is the author of Finding a Hidden Church.

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