CATHOLICOS AND COMMISSAR: The Armenian Church Under the Soviet Regime (Volume 2)
London : Gomidas Institute, 2025,
ii + 796 pp.
ISBN 978-1-909382-85-5, pb.,
UK£60.00 / US$80.00
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Volume II
20. Vazgen Becomes Catholicos 699
21. Taking over the Church 741
22. Back in the USSR 773
23. Church Life at Home 796
24. Managing the Divided Diaspora Church 825
25. Khrushchev's Persecutions 837
26. Church Closures, Demolitions, Arrests 865
27. Inter-Church Engagement 905
28. After Khrushchev 935
29. Restoring Stability 956
30. Education and Publishing 1003
31. Inside the Church's Bastion 1031
32. The Church's Past in the Present 1079
33. Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Contacts 1095
34. Loyalty, Dissidents and the KGB 1129
35. The Church in Azerbaijan and Russia 1167
36. The Modus Vivendi of the Late Soviet Period 1186
37. The Coming of Glasnost 1217
38. Conflict, Earthquake, Pressure for Independence 1234
39. Amid New Openness, New Initiatives 1279
40. Independence and New Laws 1301
41. Azerbaijan and Karabakh 1331
42. The Church in the New Republics 1376
43. The End of an Era 1390
Sources 1403
Bibliography 1403
Index 1443