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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Gulag And Pre-gulag Penal System -- Religion In The Russian Empire And The Soviet Union -- Note On Sources -- 1 Separating Church And State In Bolshevik Prisons -- From Monasteries To Prisons -- Religious Worship In Places Of Confinement -- Religious Life In The Early 1920s -- Antireligious Propaganda -- 2 The Spiritual Life Of Solovki -- Slon And Its Inmates -- From A Sacred To A Profaned Place -- Labor And The Right To Worship -- Religious Life Among The Christian Laity Religious Life Among The Orthodox Clergy -- Conflict Among Christians -- 3 The War Against Religion In The Gulag -- The Creation Of The Gulag -- The Antireligious Turn At Solovki -- Antireligious Activity In The Gulag -- Religious Life In Stalin's Gulag -- 4 Belief And Disbelief From The Great Terror To Stalin's Death -- The Great Terror -- The Great Patriotic War -- Postwar Repression Of Religion -- Worship And Spirituality In The Late Stalin Era -- 5 Western Worshippers And Gulag Gangsters -- A Mosaic Of Believers From The West -- Religious Objects And Holidays -- Conversion And De-conversion Gustaw Herling And Nina Gagen-torn -- Religious Imagery Among Gulag Gangsters -- 6 Khrushchev's Reforms And The Camp For Sectarians -- Antireligious Propaganda Under Khrushchev -- Religious Observance Under Khrushchev -- The Spiritual Life Of Yuri Yakimenko -- Dubravlag: The Camp For Sectarians -- 7 Religious Dissidents Under Brezhnev -- Official Attitudes Toward Religious Prisoners -- Religious Worship And Identity In The Brezhnev Era -- Petitioning For Freedom Of Religion -- Letters To And From Home -- 8 Christianity As A Re-educational Program -- The Early Gorbachev Era Releases And Changing Conditions, 1986-1988 -- Christian Ministering In Soviet Places Of Confinement -- Epilogue -- Sites Of Memory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Jeffrey S. Hardy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.