Stalin's Holy War
Subtitle: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780807827369
Subjects: Central government policies; European history: Second World War; Orthodox Churches; Second World War, 1939-1945; Military - World War II; Eastern Christian Churches; Russia - History - 1917 To 1991; Religion; History - Military / War; Russkaia pravoslavnaia t; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Russia; Nationalism; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Government - Legislative Branch; Political Science / Congress; Political Science/Political History/International Affairs; Religious Studies; History/Continental Europe; World War, 1939-1945; History; Religious aspects; Soviet Union
First sentence: Russia has ancient and well-established traditions of symbiosis between church and state, which can be traced in part to the Byzantine origins of its branch of Christianity.