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In Lubianka's shadow : the memoirs of an American priest in Stalin's Moscow, 1934-1945 / Léopold L.S. Braun ; edited by G.M. Hamburg.
LIBRA BX4705.B833 A3 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braun, Leopold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Braun, Leopold.
- Priests--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--Biography.
- Priests.
- Catholic Church--Clergy--Biography.
- Catholic Church.
- Clergy.
- Persecution.
- Church and state.
- Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Moscow (Russia)--Church history--20th century.
- Moscow (Russia).
- Church and state--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Persecution--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- lxxxii, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- Introduction. Father Leopold Braun: An Assumptionist Priest in Stalin's Moscow, 1934-1945 xvii
- Memoirs
- 1 "No Monkey Business, Mr. Ambassador" 1
- 2 Of Gold and Paper Rubles 10
- 3 A Pioneer Assumptionist in Russia 23
- 4 Moscow in Retrospect 35
- 5 Nonworkers, Parasites, and Ministers of Cult Incorporated 51
- 6 Sidelight Glimpses of Proletarian Felicity 68
- 7 Bigwig Transportation, Providential Lodgings 75
- 8 Wingless Guardian Angels 83
- 9 Non-Orthodox Worship in Soviet Russia 93
- 10 Liquidating the "Reactionary Clergy" 101
- 11 State Planning and Religion 115
- 12 "What Is This, a Pass?" 123
- 13 Just What Is the MVD-KGB? 132
- 14 I Officially Deal with the NKVD 150
- 15 I Hear and See Strange Things 160
- 16 "Was Not Lenin a Great Man?" 169
- 17 The Moscow St. Louis Church Five Times "Robbed" 175
- 18 I Am Mistaken for a Red Spanish Agitator 185
- 19 Other Practical Points of Soviet Antireligious Legislation 193
- 20 I Invoke the Roosevelt-Litvinov Religious Agreement 200
- 21 A Planned "Accident" and Other Sundry Experiences 210
- 22 "My Little Mother Taught Me" 222
- 23 How the Kremlin Lost Its Battle with God 229
- 24 Hitler's "Crusade" Against Soviet Atheism 238
- 25 Face-Saving Kremlin Concessions to Religion 247
- 26 Soviet Genocide and Strange U.S. War Psychosis 256
- 27 NKVD Conveyance for Me and My Dog 262
- 28 "Father, You're Going to Have a Vacation!" 270
- 29 The Kremlin Has a Request to Make 276
- 30 General de Gaulle Visits the St. Louis Church 282
- 31 I Appear As a Defendant in a People's Court 287
- 32 An Interview Following the Yalta Conference 295
- 33 "Don't Get on That Plane!" 302
- 1 Exchange of Letters Between Roosevelt and Litvinov on the U.S.-USSR Religious Agreement 315
- 2 Initial Soviet Legislation on Church and State 321
- 3 Religion in the Eyes of Kremlin Leaders: What They Said and Continue to Say 324
- 4 Categories of Penal Code Penalties: Article 20 of the RSFSR Penal Code (Revised 1953 Edition) 329
- 5 Regulations Governing the Residence and Traveling of Foreigners in the USSR 331
- 6 Methods of Soviet Religious Repression 333
- 7 Text of the 1954 Khrushchev Decree on the Manner of Conducting Antireligious Propaganda 337
- 8 Text of the Proclamation "Dissolving" the Comintern 342.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0268021996
- OCLC:
- 69992282
- Publisher Number:
- 9780268021993
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