CATHOLICOS AND COMMISSAR: The Armenian Church Under the Soviet Regime (Volume 1)
London : Gomidas Institute, 2025,
xlii + 698 pp., maps,
ISBN 978-1-909382-84-8, pb.,
UK£60.00 / US$80.00
To order please contact books@gomidas.org
Table of Contents (Volume I)
Chapter
1. From Tsarism to Bolshevism 1
2. Dealing with Armenia's Bolshevik Regime 36
3. The Church Under Bolshevik Rule Elsewhere 87
4. Promoting Schisms 109
5. Bolshevik Vigilance 142
6. Bolshevik Control and Surveillance 198
7. Ever-Tighter Restrictions 244
8. Death and Election 277
9. Loyalty Amid Growing Repression 315
10. Stalin's Terror 365
11. Murder in Echmiadzin 394
12. War 425
13. Soviet Rebuilding of the Church Amid War 447
14. Gevorg and Stalin, New Catholicos 485
15. Gevorg's Anti-Turkish and Repatriation Campaigns 529
16. Post-War Improvements 548
17. Foreigners and Repatriates 597
18. The Decline of the Church 627
19. Death of the Catholicos 683