No. 1 (35) 2017
Table of Contents
Main Theme
The Orthodox Church behind the "Iron Curtain"
- “Orthodox Factor” in Soviet Diplomacy: International Communications of the Moscow Patriarchate in the mid-1940s
- The Issue of Declaring Bishop Vladimir Kotliarov, Moscow Patriarchate Representative to the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Persona Non Grata in 1966
- Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Movement after the Second World War
- The Issue of Autocephaly of the Polish Orthodox Church in the Early Years of the Cold War
Communications over Ideological Borders
Religion in Soviet Politics and Propaganda
Book Reviews
- Religious Studies in Eastern Europe in the XXth Century: Text and Context (Review of: Bubik, Tomáš & Hoffman, Henryk (eds) (2015) Studying Religions with the Iron Curtain Closed and Opened: The Academic Study of Religion in Eastern Europe. Leiden, Bosto
- Kardinal Mindszenty — «Undesirable» Figure in the Cold War Combinations (Review of: Balogh, Margit (2014) Kardinal Jósef Mindzenty. Ein Leben zwischen kommunistischen Diktatur und Kaltem Krieg. Berlin: Osteuropa Zentrum Berlin-Verlag, 2014. — 672 S.)
- Kunter, Katharina, Schilling, Annegreth (eds) (2014) Globalisierung der Kirchen: Der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen und die Entdeckung der Dritten Welt in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren. G̈ttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. — 379 p
- Rokkuchchi, A. (2016) Stalin i patriarkh: Pravoslavnaia tserkov’ i sovetskaia vlast’, 1917–1958 [Stalin and Patriarch: Orthodox Church and Soviet Authorities in 1917–1958] / Transl. from Ital. O.R. Shchelokovoi. M.: ROSSPEN. — 582 p