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Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin - Lucy Ash

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com Title: Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin Author: Lucy Ash Narrator: Lucy Ash Format: Unabridged Length: 14:57:55 Language: English Release date: 11-07-2024 Publisher: W.F. Howes Genres: History, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Russia Summary: For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills - from the Mongol yoke, to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, Soviet atheism, the chaotic 1990s and now two decades of Vladimir Putin. In this provocative new book, Lucy Ash reveals how, under Putin, religion is being stripped of its spiritual content and used as a weapon to control the population in a way never seen before. Orthodox clerics and their acolytes are trying to drag Russia backwards into a new Middle Ages. Combining historical research with vivid present-day reportage, The Baton and the Cross explores the impact the Church is having on millions of Russians' lives - from the tower blocks of Moscow and the big cities to far-flung villages in Siberia. Delving into the underbelly of politics, state security and big money, Ash shows how these forces have formed an unholy alliance with Orthodoxy.