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The lives of Soviet secret agents : religion and police surveillance in the USSR / edited by Tatiana Vagramenko and Nadezhda Beliakova ; afterword by Katya Tolstaya.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tolstaya, Katya, 1970- author of afterword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and state--Soviet Union.
- Religion and state.
- Secret service--Soviet Union.
- Secret service.
- Intelligence service--Soviet Union.
- Intelligence service.
- Soviet Union--Religion.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 330 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2025]
- Contents:
- Introduction. Policing religion in the Soviet Union / Tatiana Vagramenko and Nadezhda Beliakova
- Novice sania : the life of underground Orthodox communities through the testimony of a witness for the prosecution / Anna Samsonova and Tatiana Vagramenko
- Secret agents in the post-war Russian Orthodox Episcopate : the case of the Ukrainian SSR / Roman Skakun
- Fighting prophets and prophecies : the Soviet secret police against Pentecostals / Vera Kliueva
- Agent recruitment within the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches in Latvia / Solveiga Krūmiņa-Koņkova
- Mykola Murani
- "Berezovskii"
- "Sova" : the KGB collaborator in charge of an underground church / Roman Skakun and Volodymyr Moroz
- Undercover and in faith : the secret life of a woman agent in the Baptist community of Soviet Kyiv / Nadezhda Beliakova
- Targeted by the intelligence services yet sheltered by the Almighty : the memoirs of Jakob Görzen, manager of an underground Baptist press in the USSR / Johannes Dyck
- Chain of the Qur'an : secret agents among Muslims during the Stalinist repressions / Yuliya Shapoval
- The espionage activities of an embassy typist : the fate of secret collaborator Emina Akchurina / Renat Bekkin
- Afterword. Interrogating shadows : theology and the legacy of Soviet surveillance / Katya Tolstaya.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 17, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lives of Soviet secret agents
- ISBN:
- 9781666938463
- 1666938467
- Publisher Number:
- 40032694955
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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