Jeff Eden is Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland. His previous books include Slavery and Empire in Central Asia (2018) and Warrior Saints of the Silk Road: Legends of the Qarakhanids (2018).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Debating the Wartime "Religious Revolution" 1. The Setting: From the Years of Repression to Stalin's "New Deal"2. Praying with Stalin: Soviet Islamic Propaganda of the Second World War3. Negotiating Stalin's Tolerance: Muslim Institutions in Wartime4. Red Army Prayers and Homefront Lyrics: Glimpses of Soviet Muslim Life in Wartime5. Bureaucrats Bewildered: Monitoring Muslims in Postwar Kazakhstan ConclusionAppendix: Soviet Religious Propaganda and Wartime Documents: A SelectionBibliography

Enlightening and highly original...[Eden] successfully knits together the stories of a diverse range of Muslim peoples, including Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kalmyks, Tatars, Tajiks, and others, to tell the story of how Soviet religious repression retreated and changed shape over the course of the war and how Soviet Muslim communities, both at home and at the front, responded to these shifts... [I]nnovative work that the author has laid out in this exciting book.

Jeff Eden is Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland. His previous books include Slavery and Empire in Central Asia (2018) and Warrior Saints of the Silk Road: Legends of the Qarakhanids (2018).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Debating the Wartime "Religious Revolution" 1. The Setting: From the Years of Repression to Stalin's "New Deal"2. Praying with Stalin: Soviet Islamic Propaganda of the Second World War3. Negotiating Stalin's Tolerance: Muslim Institutions in Wartime4. Red Army Prayers and Homefront Lyrics: Glimpses of Soviet Muslim Life in Wartime5. Bureaucrats Bewildered: Monitoring Muslims in Postwar Kazakhstan ConclusionAppendix: Soviet Religious Propaganda and Wartime Documents: A SelectionBibliography

Enlightening and highly original...[Eden] successfully knits together the stories of a diverse range of Muslim peoples, including Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kalmyks, Tatars, Tajiks, and others, to tell the story of how Soviet religious repression retreated and changed shape over the course of the war and how Soviet Muslim communities, both at home and at the front, responded to these shifts... [I]nnovative work that the author has laid out in this exciting book.

Jeff Eden is Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary's College of Maryland. His previous books include Slavery and Empire in Central Asia (2018) and Warrior Saints of the Silk Road: Legends of the Qarakhanids (2018).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Debating the Wartime "Religious Revolution" 1. The Setting: From the Years of Repression to Stalin's "New Deal"2. Praying with Stalin: Soviet Islamic Propaganda of the Second World War3. Negotiating Stalin's Tolerance: Muslim Institutions in Wartime4. Red Army Prayers and Homefront Lyrics: Glimpses of Soviet Muslim Life in Wartime5. Bureaucrats Bewildered: Monitoring Muslims in Postwar Kazakhstan ConclusionAppendix: Soviet Religious Propaganda and Wartime Documents: A SelectionBibliography

Enlightening and highly original...[Eden] successfully knits together the stories of a diverse range of Muslim peoples, including Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kalmyks, Tatars, Tajiks, and others, to tell the story of how Soviet religious repression retreated and changed shape over the course of the war and how Soviet Muslim communities, both at home and at the front, responded to these shifts... [I]nnovative work that the author has laid out in this exciting book.