Dennis J. Dunn is Professor of History and Director of International Studies at Texas State University, USA.

• Westview Replica Editions -- Preface -- Introduction -- Religion and Soviet Society -- Toward the End of the Old Regime: The State, Church, and Duma -- Religious Administration and Modernization -- Religion and the Intelligentsia -- Religion and Secularization in the Soviet Union: The Role of Antireligious Cartoons -- Religious Groups in the Soviet Union -- Backwards From Reactionism: The De-Modernization of the Russian Orthodox Church -- Modernization and Conservatism in Soviet Islam -- Judaism and Modernization in the Soviet Union -- The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, 1920-1930: A Case Study in Religious Modernization -- Modernization and Latin Rite Catholics in the Soviet Union -- Protestant Sectarians and Modernization in the Soviet Union