Table of Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Studying Soviet Policy toward Religion and the Church in Latvia and Estonia
1. The Early Stalinization Process, 1944-1949
2. The Period of High Stalinism, 1949-1953
3. The Post-Stalin Thaw, 1953-1957
4. Renewed Repression and International Opening under Khrushchev, 1958-1964
5. Détente and Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era, 1964-1985
6. Perestroika and Religious Policy in the Baltics: Playing Harmony in the Singing Revolution, 1985-1991
Conclusion: The Contours of Baltic Exceptionalism in Soviet Religious Policy and its Limits
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Robert F. Goeckel is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the State University of New York College at Geneseo. He is author of The Lutheran Church and the East German State: Political Conflict and Change under Ulbricht and Honecker, and its German edition, Die Evangelische Kirche und die DDR. Konflikte, Gespraeche, Vereinbarungen unter Ulbricht und Honecker.

Reviews

"The book will surely stand up over time as authoritative for its extensive documentation and the intellectual subtlety of its analysis."—Russian Review