Christianity And Russian Culture In Soviet Society

Preface -- Christianity and the Soviet State -- Religion in the Soviet Union: Survival and Revival -- The Contemporary Status of Religion in the USSR -- The Legal Status of Religious Organizations and the Clergy in the USSR -- Freedom of Religion: Moving Away from the Stalinist Legal Code -- The Soviet State and Russian Protestants -- Russian Orthodoxy Under Gorbachev -- Christianity and Soviet Russian Culture -- Maksim Gorky and the Decline of Bolshevik Theomachy -- Soviet Man as Believer and Atheist: Alexander Zinoviev’s Spiritual Stratum -- Christian Patterns in Contemporary Soviet Prose -- Christianity in Recent Soviet Films: The Case of Russophile Ideology -- The Icon in Russian Art, Society and Culture -- The Resurgence of Christianity and Russian-Jewish Relations -- Challenge of the “Russian Idea”: Rediscovering the Legacy of Russian Religious Philosophy