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The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR explores the covert world of secret police surveillance within the Soviet Union, delving into lesser-known grassroots religious life and the collusion of religious communities with the Soviet secret police. These case studies come from Ukraine, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Russia, spanning from the Central Black-Earth region to the Bashkir and Udmurt regions. This book reconstructs the stories of insider agents, focusing on the entanglements and ambiguities of collaboration and secret police surveillance in the Soviet era. These are the stories of the resilience and creative agency of religious believers in times when their faith in God was considered a legal offense. These issues are addressed through an in-depth analysis of previously untapped archival sources from the Soviet secret police archives and eyewitness testimonies.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction: Policing Religion in the Soviet Union Tatiana Vagramenko and Nadezhda Beliakova Chapter 1: Novice Sania: The Life of Underground Orthodox Communities through the Testimony of a Witness for the Prosecution Anna Samsonova and Tatiana Vagramenko Chapter 2: Secret Agents in the Post-War Russian Orthodox Episcopate: The Case of the Ukrainian SSR Roman Skakun Chapter 3: Fighting Prophets and Prophecies: The Soviet Secret Police against Pentecostals Vera Kliueva Chapter 4: Agent Recruitment within the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches in Latvia Solveiga Krumina-Konkova Chapter 5: Mykola Murani — “Berezovskii” — “Sova”: The KGB Collaborator in Charge of an Underground Church Roman Skakun and Volodymyr Moroz Chapter 6: Undercover and in Faith: The Secret Life of a Woman Agent in the Baptist Community of Soviet Kyiv Nadezhda Beliakova Chapter 7: Targeted by the Intelligence Services yet Sheltered by the Almighty: The Memoirs of Jakob Görzen, Manager of an Underground Baptist Press in the USSR Johannes Dyck Chapter 8: Chain of the Qur’an: Secret Agents among Muslims during the Stalinist Repressions Yuliya Shapoval Chapter 9: The Espionage Activities of an Embassy Typist: The Fate of Secret Collaborator Emina Akchurina Renat Bekkin Afterword: Interrogating Shadows: Theology and the Legacy of Soviet Surveillance Katya Tolstaya About the Contributors

About the Author :
Tatiana Vagramenko is senior postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork. Nadezhda Beliakova is scholar at risk at the University of Bielefeld and at the Institute for the Academic Study of Eastern Christianity (INaSEC) at the Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Review :
“This agenda-setting volume brings together cutting-edge research into newly declassified archival documents from Ukraine, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. A must-read for any serious student of religion and secret policing in the Soviet Union, the contributions explore not only the histories of infiltration , surveillance, and repression of religious communities, but also their resilience and survival.”


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  • ISBN-13: 9781978774049
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR
  • ISBN-10: 1978774044
  • Publisher Date: 16 Dec 2024
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 1


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