{"product_id":"9781666938456","title":"Lives of Soviet Secret Agents Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLives of Soviet Secret Agents\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eReligion and Police Surveillance in the USSR\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKatya Tolstaya | Nadezhda Beliakova | Tatiana Vagramenko | Renat Bekkin | Johannes Dyck | Vera Kliueva | Solveiga Krumina-Konkova | Volodymyr Moroz | Anna Samsonova | Yulia Shapoval | Roman Skakun | Tatiana Vagramenko | Nadezhda Beliakova\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Russia \u0026amp; the Former Soviet Union\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR e\u003c\/i\u003explores the covert world of secret police surveillance within the Soviet Union, delving into lesser-known grassroots religious life and the collusion of religious communities with the Soviet secret police. These case studies come from Ukraine, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Russia, spanning from the Central Black-Earth region to the Bashkir and Udmurt regions. This book reconstructs the stories of insider agents, focusing on the entanglements and ambiguities of collaboration and secret police surveillance in the Soviet era. These are the stories of the resilience and creative agency of religious believers in times when their faith in God was considered a legal offense. These issues are addressed through an in-depth analysis of previously untapped archival sources from the Soviet secret police archives and eyewitness testimonies.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTatiana Vagramenko\u003c\/b\u003e is senior postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNadezhda Beliakova\u003c\/b\u003e is scholar at risk at the University of Bielefeld and at the Institute for the Academic Study of Eastern Christianity (INaSEC) at the Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e05 February 2025\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eLexington Books\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781666938456\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e352\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22.24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55335697711244,"sku":"9781666938456","price":117.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_e697838b-b7f1-49d6-8b0e-62490d412d8a.jpg?v=1788030806","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781666938456","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}