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NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN SOME COUNTRIES.;Title proper from title frame.;Mode of access: World Wide Web.;Electronic reproduction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.;Includes bibliographical references (page 263-313) and index.;Prologue: Russian Orthodoxy resurgent / Sergiev Posad -- The end of the Atheist empire -- A new hope -- Rebuilding holy Moscow -- Accursed questions: who is to blame? -- Irreconcilable differences: Orthodoxy and the West -- The Babylonian legacy: exiles, martyrs, and collaborators -- A faith-based army -- Epilogue: twenty years after: from party to patriarch. Explores the role the Russian Orthodox Church played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism, focusing on the influence of Patriarch Aleksy II.