Women of the Catacombs : : Memoirs of the Underground Orthodox Church in Stalin's Russia / / ed. by Wallace L. Daniel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Daniel, Wallace L.,; Men, Aleksandr,; Men, Archpriest Aleksandr,; Men, Elena Semenovna,; Robson, Roy R.,; Vasilevskaia, V. Ia.,; Vasilevskaia, Vera Iakovlevna,
• HerausgeberIn: Daniel, Wallace L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.) :; 13 b&w halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Transliteration and Translation --; Foreword --; Editor’s Introduction --; Original Preface to Katakomby XX veka: Vospominaniia --; Part I Fr. Serafim --; Part II Fr. Pyotr Shipkov --; Part III My Journey --; Appendix Childhood and Youth --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501754067; 9783110739084; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754087; 9783110753851
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501754067?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Wallace L. Daniel.

The memoirs presented in Women of the Catacombs offer a rare close-up account of the underground Orthodox community and its priests during some of the most difficult years in Russian history. The catacomb church in the Soviet Union came into existence in the 1920s and played a significant part in Russian national life for nearly fifty years. Adherents to the Orthodox faith often referred to the catacomb church as the "light shining in the dark." Women of the Catacombs provides a first-hand portrait of lived religion in its social, familial, and cultural setting during this tragic period.Until now, scholars have had only brief, scattered fragments of information about Russia's illegal church organization that claimed to protect the purity of the Orthodox tradition. Vera Iakovlevna Vasilevskaia and Elena Semenovna Men, who joined the church as young women, offer evidence on how Russian Orthodoxy remained a viable, alternative presence in Soviet society, when all political, educational, and cultural institutions attempted to indoctrinate Soviet citizens with an atheistic perspective. Wallace L. Daniel's translation not only sheds light on Russia's religious and political history, but also shows how two educated women maintained their personal integrity in times when prevailing political and social headwinds moved in an opposite direction.