Gorbachev, Glasnost and the Gospel

Great Britain: Hodder & Stoughton. Paperback. Slight crease to corner front cover. For seventy years a state, for the first time in history, attempted to eradicate all concept of God from society. In 1988 Soviet leaders not only realised they had failed, but they put the process into reverse. This book recounts how it happened and what the consequences have been. Under Michail Gorbechem the churches have begun to play a positive role in Soviet society. After years of restriction and persecution, clerny now problaim their message on television, the authorities are calling upon the churches to make good the shortcomings in the social services (orphanages, hospitals, prisons) and new laws are being drafted which will reverse the practice of decades. In this book the author traces the progress of church perestroika within all the major demoninations and looks at the early influences on the man at the centre of the changes - whose won grandmother was a devout Christian. Illustrated. 226 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Paperback Edition. 1990.