Jeffrey S. Hardy is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is the author of The Gulag After Stalin: Redefining Punishment in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1953-1964 and The Soviet Gulag: History and Memory.

• PrefaceIntroduction Section I: The Early Soviet Era, 1917-19291. Separating Church and State in Bolshevik Prisons2. The Spiritual Life of Solovki Section II: The Stalin Era, 1929-1953 3. The War against Religion in the Gulag 4. Belief and Disbelief from the Great Terror to Stalin's Death5. Western Worshippers and Gulag Gangsters Section III: The Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1991 6. Khrushchev's Reforms and the Camp for Sectarians 7. Religious Dissidents under Brezhnev 8. Christianity as a Re-educational Program EpilogueBibliographyIndex

Hardy's book offers a new perspective, a clear argument, and a readable narrative that will be welcomed by researchers and undergraduates studying the Gulag or religion under communist regimes.

Jeffrey S. Hardy is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is the author of The Gulag After Stalin: Redefining Punishment in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1953-1964 and The Soviet Gulag: History and Memory.

• PrefaceIntroduction Section I: The Early Soviet Era, 1917-19291. Separating Church and State in Bolshevik Prisons2. The Spiritual Life of Solovki Section II: The Stalin Era, 1929-1953 3. The War against Religion in the Gulag 4. Belief and Disbelief from the Great Terror to Stalin's Death5. Western Worshippers and Gulag Gangsters Section III: The Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1991 6. Khrushchev's Reforms and the Camp for Sectarians 7. Religious Dissidents under Brezhnev 8. Christianity as a Re-educational Program EpilogueBibliographyIndex

Hardy's book offers a new perspective, a clear argument, and a readable narrative that will be welcomed by researchers and undergraduates studying the Gulag or religion under communist regimes.

Jeffrey S. Hardy is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is the author of The Gulag After Stalin: Redefining Punishment in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1953-1964 and The Soviet Gulag: History and Memory.

• PrefaceIntroduction Section I: The Early Soviet Era, 1917-19291. Separating Church and State in Bolshevik Prisons2. The Spiritual Life of Solovki Section II: The Stalin Era, 1929-1953 3. The War against Religion in the Gulag 4. Belief and Disbelief from the Great Terror to Stalin's Death5. Western Worshippers and Gulag Gangsters Section III: The Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1991 6. Khrushchev's Reforms and the Camp for Sectarians 7. Religious Dissidents under Brezhnev 8. Christianity as a Re-educational Program EpilogueBibliographyIndex

Hardy's book offers a new perspective, a clear argument, and a readable narrative that will be welcomed by researchers and undergraduates studying the Gulag or religion under communist regimes.