The Gates of Hell : : An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union.

• Author: Heise, Matthew.
• Place / Publishing House: Ashland : : Faithlife Corporation,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Chronology
• Abbreviations
• Prayer for Martyrs
• Prologue
• Chapter 1: A World in Flux: War, Revolution, and Reformation
• Chapter 2: "The Church Is Separated from the State": The Bolsheviks Take Power
• Chapter 3: "Any Proof of Brotherly Love": Finding a Way to Aid Russia
• Chapter 4: A Powerful, Invisible Hand from the Dark: The Malevolent Might of the Cheka
• Chapter 5: The "Religious NEP": The Departure of the ARA and the NLC's Struggle to Continue
• Chapter 6: A Fir Tree with Two Peaks: The First All-Russian Lutheran Synodical Convention
• Chapter 7: Servants in His Vineyard: A Bible School Is Born in the USSR
• Chapter 8: "Hold Fast What You Have": The Status of the Lutheran Church in 1926
• Chapter 9: "Unbelievable Elasticity": Managing Relations with Church and State in 1927
• Chapter 10: "They Would Not See His Face Again": A Last Synod and Mission Festival
• Chapter 11: "A Declaration of a Relentless Struggle": The Battle against Religion Is Joined
• Chapter 12: "He … Shall Think to Change the Times and the Law": Stalin's First Five-Year Plan Gets Underway
• Chapter 13: "Faithful to Him to the Grave": Inspiring a New Generation of Believers
• Chapter 14: A Somber Christmas: Arrests and Interrogations
• Chapter 15: The Church Is Broken: The Koch Trial and the Decision in the Hansen-Muss Case
• Chapter 16: Sheep among Wolves: The Servant of the Church as Enemy of the State
• Chapter 17: "Stand and Eat, You Still Have a Long Way to Go": Words and Prayers of Encouragement
• Chapter 18: "Stuck Deep in Snow and Ice": The Spiritual Life of the Church in Late 1931 and Early 1932
• Chapter 19: A Sad and Muddled Affair: Conflicts in the Church as OGPU Pressure Intensifies.
• Chapter 20: "Harvest of Sorrow": Seminary Struggles, Famine, and the Recognition of the Soviet Union
• Chapter 21: "A Martyr to the Cause": The Tragedy of the Meiers
• Chapter 22: "A Small Crowd Armed with Courage": More Arrests and the Closing of the Seminary in 1934
• Chapter 23: The Pulse of the Church Grows Weaker: The Kirov Terror and the Most Difficult Year since 1929
• Chapter 24: They Could Do No Other: The Closing of Jesus Christ Lutheran Church
• Chapter 25: "Fellow Citizens with the Saints": The Death of John Morehead and Departure of Arthur Malmgren
• Chapter 26: "Thousands of Seeds … Cast to the Wind": Shadows of the Great Terror
• Chapter 27: The NKVD Big Lie: Linking the Russian Lutheran Church to Hitler
• Chapter 28: "Blessed Are They that Suffer Persecution for Justice's Sake": The Great Terror and the Destruction of the Lutheran Pastorate in the USSR
• Chapter 29: Heroes of Faith in the Gulag: Re-Arrests and Deaths in the Camps
• Chapter 30: Last Christmas in Leningrad: Erasing Three Centuries of Lutheran Presence
• Chapter 31: Under the Watchful Eye of the NKVD: Being German Proves Fatal
• Epilogue: The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail against the Church
• Acknowledgments
• Photo Gallery
• Bibliography
• Archives and Libraries Used
• Subject Index.