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| Author | : Hermann Hartfeld |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Christians |
| ISBN | : 9780915684748 |
The remarkable true story of a dozen Christians in the Soviet union, many of them young people, who triumph for Christ despite imprisonment for their leadership in "underground" churches. Believers young and old, from many walks of life and from many denominations, unite in their faithfulness to Christ. They learn to support one another even through suffering; they learn to pray for one another and for their enemies. Read their story, seen through the eyes of a church youth worker in his 20s who suffered imprisonment for his faith. A challenging model for believers. An exciting chronicle of God's power and grace.
| Author | : Galina V Andreyev |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2017-10-12 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781978031494 |
I was raised in a Christian family of 15 children. I wrote this true story about my family how the KGB tortured us with experimental drugs, because my father Vladimir Khailo wanted a freedom of Faith. Behind the closed "Iron Curtain," the KGB persecuted faithful Christians including my parents. My parents started an Independent Church in our house. In doing so, our family was subjected to intense persecution by the KGB. For seven years, my father was tortured for Christ with experimental drugs in one of the strictest psychiatric prisons in the Soviet Union, where he spent his time with mass-murderers and the KGB had used bio-weapons and other drug experiments on him. Throughout it all, my father maintained his Faith, saying: "I have committed my way to the Lord. I know that Jesus is the Truth and He is the Way to Heaven!" The Christian Solidarity International, US Congress and President Ronald Reagan found out about our situation, they demanded for our freedom. In 1987, when the USSR was still locked, my family was allowed by President Mikhail Gorbachev to leave the USSR. My family was the first largest family ever permitted to leave the Soviet Union. My family was allowed, with greatest exception, to enter the United States of America. This is a miracle that was performed by our God. What was impossible for the family, God made it possible. God raised my family up, to more than we could be! Galina V Andreyev, Khailo
| Author | : Jack Barsky |
| Publisher | : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1496416821 |
An ex-Soviet KGB agent details his primary mission to work undercover in the United States for over a decade and discusses his change of allegiance and defection from the KGB. --Publisher's description.
| Author | : Hermann Hartfield |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1980-01-01 |
| Genre | : Christians in Russia |
| ISBN | : 9780882641560 |
| Author | : Dominic Erdozain |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2017-10-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1609092287 |
At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the deficiencies of the Soviet leadership or the chaos of a "command" economy. Beneath the rhetoric of scientific communism was a culture of intellectual and cultural dissidence, which may be regarded as the "prehistory of perestroika." This volume explores the contribution of Christian thought and belief to this culture of dissent and survival, showing how religious and secular streams of resistance joined in an unexpected and powerful partnership. The essays in The Dangerous God seek to shed light on the dynamic and subversive capacities of religious faith in a context of brutal oppression, while acknowledging the often-collusive relationship between clerical elites and the Soviet authorities. Against the Marxist notion of the "ideological" function of religion, the authors set the example of people for whom faith was more than an opiate; against an enduring mythology of secularization, they propose the centrality of religious faith in the intellectual, political, and cultural life of the late modern era. This volume will appeal to specialists on religion in Soviet history as well as those interested in the history of religion under totalitarian regimes.
| Author | : Haralan Popoff |
| Publisher | : Zondervan |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 1970-01 |
| Genre | : Convicts |
| ISBN | : 9780310312628 |
Haralan Popov was the pastor of one of the largest churches in Bulgaria. The Communist government imprisoned him for 15 years.
| Author | : Ben Macintyre |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2018-09-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1101904208 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist • Shortlisted for the Bailie Giffords Prize in Nonfiction If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly working for MI6. For nearly a decade, as the Cold War reached its twilight, Gordievsky helped the West turn the tables on the KGB, exposing Russian spies and helping to foil countless intelligence plots, as the Soviet leadership grew increasingly paranoid at the United States's nuclear first-strike capabilities and brought the world closer to the brink of war. Desperate to keep the circle of trust close, MI6 never revealed Gordievsky's name to its counterparts in the CIA, which in turn grew obsessed with figuring out the identity of Britain's obviously top-level source. Their obsession ultimately doomed Gordievsky: the CIA officer assigned to identify him was none other than Aldrich Ames, the man who would become infamous for secretly spying for the Soviets. Unfolding the delicious three-way gamesmanship between America, Britain, and the Soviet Union, and culminating in the gripping cinematic beat-by-beat of Gordievsky's nail-biting escape from Moscow in 1985, Ben Macintyre's latest may be his best yet. Like the greatest novels of John le Carré, it brings readers deep into a world of treachery and betrayal, where the lines bleed between the personal and the professional, and one man's hatred of communism had the power to change the future of nations.
| Author | : John Garrard |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2008-09-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780691125732 |
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 grips with this complex and contradictory resurgence of the Orthodox faith, because it is the hidden force behind Russia's domestic and foreign policies today.
| Author | : Koenraad De Wolf |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2013-02-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 080286743X |
This gripping book tells the largely unknown story of longtime Russian dissident Alexander Ogorodnikov -- from Communist youth to religious dissident, in the Gulag and back again. Ogorodnikov's courage has touched people from every walk of life, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher. In the 1970s Ogorodnikov performed a feat without precedent in the Soviet Union: he organized thousands of Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christians in an underground group called the Christian Seminar. When the KGB gave him the option to leave the Soviet Union rather than face the Gulag, he firmly declined because he wanted to change "his" Russia from the inside out. His willingness to sacrifice himself and be imprisoned meant leaving behind his wife and newborn child. Ogorodnikov spent nine years in the Gulag, barely surviving the horrors he encountered there. Despite KGB harassment and persecution after his release, he refused to compromise his convictions and went on to found the first free school in the Soviet Union, the first soup kitchen, and the first private shelter for orphans, among other accomplishments. Today this man continues to carry on his struggle against government detainments and atrocities, often alone. Readers will be amazed and inspired by Koenraad De Wolf's authoritative account of Ogorodnikov's life and work.
| Author | : Robert Adam |
| Publisher | : Robert Adam |
| Total Pages | : 582 |
| Release | : 2022-07-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1005779112 |
London, 1971: Edward Heath is desperate to rush through EEC accession, not least because two-thirds of the electorate are against it. So when a vice ring makes threats against the Prime Minister, Kramer, the éminence grise of the European Commission, has no choice but to take action. But even before the fishing boats can begin their protests on the Thames, the counter-measures plan devised by Kramer and his English wartime colleague starts to take on a life of its own. Series notes: The fourth book in the Charlemagne series, but written to be read as a standalone story, without significant plot reveals from the prequels. Certain scenes in the text are suitable for 18+ years / 12th Grade readers only.
