Author: Vardys, Vytas Stanley
Title: The Catholic Church, Dissent, and Nationality in Soviet Lithuania
Description: Boulder [CO], East European Quarterly, 1978. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xiii,336 pp. Series: East European Monographs, no. 43.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Catholicism & Nationality: The Lithuanian Perspective; The Church & the National State: Independent Lithuania, 1918-40; The Collapse of the Lithuanian State; The Catholics & the Commissars: The First Experiences; The Iron Curtain Descends: The Years of Stalin; Destalinization & the Church: Liberalization without Religion; The Constitution, the Law & the Church; Atheism: Apparatus & Methods of Promotion; Emergence of Religious Protest Movement: The Struggle for Liberal Society; Confrontation with the Government & Mobilization of Public Opinion; 'The Chronicle of the Catholic Church of Lithuania': The Voice of the Movement; Catholicism & Nationalism in the 1970s; The Kremlin vs the 'Chronicle': Personalities of the Protest Movement; Effects of Soviet Religious Policy on the Church: An Institutiional Balance Sheet; Church; Communism & Catholicism in the Soviet Union: Is Co-existence Possible?

Keywords: Lithuania Political History, Lithuanian National, Nationalist Dissent, Nationalism Protest, Soviet Union, Communism, Communist Politics, Religion Policy, Catholic Church, Catholicism