Detente and Papal-Communist Relations, 1962-1978

History

Dunn, Dennis J.

Europe

Routledge

Religion And Modernization In The Soviet Union

To the surprise of many students of the Soviet Union, religion has shown itself to be a force still powerful in Soviet society. In contrast, the impact of religion in developed Western societies has declined. Dr. Dunn points out that the study of this antinomy can shed light on the entire concept of "modernization" in the U.S.S.R. The study of the

This unique account of Russia's encounter with Catholicism from the medieval period to the present provides fascinating insights into Catholic-Russian relations. Dennis Dunn analyzes religious politics in the former USSR and in Russia, particularly in areas where relations between the state-backed Orthodox establishment and the Catholic Church have renewed debates about civil rights, religious freedom and Russian national identity under Vladimir Putin's regime. Discussing issues such as the role of Pope John Paul II in helping to bring down the Iron Curtain, Dunn argues provocatively that Catholic-Russian relations are a microcosm of Western-Russian relations and sheds new light on the historical strain between Russia and the West. Showing how Russia's adoption of a secular ideology - a vain attempt to surpass the West - alienated the Russian government not only from the Catholic Church but also from its own Orthodox foundation, this book discusses how Russia sealed its fate while precipitating the Cold War with the West. Students and general readers interested in Russian history, Western-Russian relations, Catholicism, and comparative religion more broadly, will find this an invaluable and accessible account of an important and understudied subject.

The Catholic Church and Russia: Popes, Patriarchs, Tsars and Commissars

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On November 16, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov signed an agreement establishing diplomatic ties between the United States and the Soviet Union. Two days later Roosevelt named the first of five ambassadors he would place in Moscow between 1933 and 1945. Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin tells the dramatic and important story of these ambassadors and their often contentious relationships with the two most powerful men in the world. More than fifty years after his death, Roosevelt's foreign policy, especially regarding the Soviet Union, remains a subject of intense debate. Dennis Dunn offers an ambitious new appraisal of the apparent confusion and contradiction in Roosevelt's policy one moment publicizing the four freedoms and the Atlantic Charter and the next moment giving tacit approval to Stalin's control of parts of Eastern Europe and northeast Asia. Dunn argues that "Rooseveltism," the president's belief that the Soviet Union and the United States were both developing into modern social democracies, blinded Roosevelt to the true nature of Stalin's brutal dictatorship despite repeated warnings from his ambassadors in Moscow. Focusing on the ambassadors themselves, William C. Bullitt, Joseph E. Davies, Laurence A. Steinhardt, William C. Standley, and W. Averell Harriman, Dunn details their bruising arguments with Roosevelt over the president's repeated concessions to Stalin. Using information uncovered during extensive research in the Soviet archives, Dunn reveals much about Stalin's policy toward the United States and demonstrates that in ignoring his ambassadors' good advice, Roosevelt appeased the Soviet leader unnecessarily. Sure to generate new discussion concerning the origins of the Cold War, this controversial assessment of Roosevelt's failed Soviet policy will be read for years to come.

Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's Ambassadors to Moscow

Americas

University Press of Kentucky

Detente And Papal-communist Relations, 1962-1978

Westview Press

The Catholic Church and the Soviet Government, 1939-1949 (East European monographs)

distributed by Columbia University Press

The Catholic Church and Russia

It began with injustice-Stalin murdered Ana Cortez's parents, naïve idealists who got caught up in his purges in the 1930s, and assumed Ana, a beautiful, magnetic Russian expert from Mexico who was thirty-six years his junior, would marry him to produce a communist dynasty to rule the world. When she flees Moscow, his secret police relentlessly pursue her and peel back one hiding place after another as if opening a matryoshka or Russian nesting doll. In a desperate game of hide and seek that stretches over continents, she eludes them. She is up against a brutal dictator, the international resources of Soviet Russia, and loneliness. She is mighty stubborn, awfully creative, but the odds are against her and her luck always seems to be about to run out. She finds refuge in Texas where she marries, becomes an American citizen, and puts the Stalinist nightmare behind her. However, Stalin's police show up and corner her in a bar in Central Texas in 1953. She escapes with the help of a stranger codenamed the Sheriff and decides to confront Stalin. She goes to Moscow with her husband and the Sheriff and his Posse. She aims to avenge her parents' death, bring Stalin to justice, and set in motion reforms that will end communism in Russia and change the trajectory of world history. Against the factual background of the Stalinist era, World War II, and the Cold War, The Russian Riddle: Stalin's Deadly Date with Destiny sizzles with suspense, action, jaw-dropping twists and turns, and relentless pursuits that are stymied by creative countermoves that range across Russia, Europe, Mexico, and Texas, and involve the pope; secret agents; Khrushchev, Beria, and the Soviet Politburo, and other colorful characters. It will make you laugh, cry, and sit on the edge of your seat-an epic story that validates the importance of roots, law, justice, and traditional values in an era when . It is the first novel in the Posse Mystery Series.

The Russian Riddle: Stalin's Deadly Date With Destiny (Posse Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Global Connections, Inc.

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