Stalin's holy war: religion, nationalism, and alliance politics, 1941-1945
Date: 17 Apr 2010, 00:56
Steven Merritt Miner, "Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945" Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | 2003 | ISBN 0807827363 | PDF | 431 pages | 18.5 MB Histories of the USSR during World War II generally portray the Kremlin's restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church as an attempt by an ideologically bankrupt regime to appeal to Russian nationalism in order to counter the mortal threat of Nazism.