The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin Through Stalin

by Zugger, Christopher Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780815606796
• ISBN10: 0815606796
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Summary

This epic work traces the history of Soviet Catholicism from its rich life in 1914 through its tentative fate in the first sixty years of the USSR. Zugger tells of the faithful men and women shackled by dictatorship, doomed to deportation, and abandoned by their own church in the west.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	xiii
Tables	xv
Preface	xvii
Introduction	xxi
Guide to Acronyms	xxiii
Guide to Names for States, Churches, People, Factions, and Places	xxvii
PART ONE 1914-1922
The Inheritance	7	(14)
The Silver Mosaic of the Church in Russia	21	(14)
The Catholic Communities of Imperial Russia, Part One	35	(30)
The Catholic Communities of Imperial Russia, Part Two	65	(28)
World War I	93	(12)
``And the Flood Swept Them All Away,'' November 1917-Winter 1918	105	(9)
The Civil War in the West	114	(4)
The Russo-Polish War: Red Star versus White Eagle	118	(15)
The Golgotha of Siberia and the Far East, 1918-1922	133	(7)
Survival---But What Next? 1920-1922	140	(4)
The Surprising Interlude: Germany, the Vatican, and the Bolsheviks	144	(2)
As Soon as Grass Began to Grow, It Was Eaten	146	(11)
PART TWO 1922-1939
The Passion Bearers of the Russian Catholic Exarchate	157	(13)
``Icicles Formed Fantastic Gargoyles above the Altars,'' 1922-1923	170	(10)
The Cieplak Trial and Disruption of the Church	180	(10)
Catholics in the Gulag	190	(17)
The New Economic Policy, 1921-1928	207	(21)
Secret Agent and Secret Hierarchy	228	(13)
The Destruction of Rural Life and the Great Change, 1929-1936	241	(14)
The Great Terror and the Annihilation of the Church, December 1934-September 1, 1939	255	(26)
PART THREE 1939-1945
The Crucifixion of Poland	281	(28)
The Great Patriotic War	309	(19)
The Baltic States, Bukovina, and Bessarabia, 1940-1941	328	(15)
Catholic Life in the Nazi-Occupied Baltic States	343	(3)
Catholic Revival in the Nazi-Occupied Soviet Union	346	(4)
Revival in Belorussia	350	(5)
Revival in Ukraine	355	(7)
The Flight to the West	362	(9)
Catholicism and Soviet Expansion into Europe	371	(9)
Drawing in the Great Net of Stalin, 1945	380	(4)
The War to Destory the Latin Catholic Church, 1945-1953	384	(32)
The War to Destroy the Eastern Catholic Churches, 1945-1953	416	(51)
Appendixes:
A. Catholics and Jews in the Nazi-Occupied Soviet Territories	447	(12)
B. Harbin and the Soviet Catholics of Manchuria	459	(8)
Notes	467	(48)
Bibliography	515	(22)
Index	537