The Baton and the Cross
russia's church from pagans to putin
$44.32
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
6 November 2025
Summary
The Unholy Alliance: Religion, Power, and Putin’s Russia
For over a thousand years, the Russian Orthodox Church has demonstrated remarkable resilience, weathering Mongol rule, Tsarist autocracy, the Enlightenment, Soviet atheism, and the turbulent 1990s. Today, it stands beside power once more, blessing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
In this compelling book, Lucy Ash exposes how, under Putin’s regime, religion is being exploited as a tool to manipulate the populace. O…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781837731855 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1837731853 |
| Author: | Lucy Ash |
| Publisher: | Icon Books |
| Imprint: | Icon Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 6 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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About The Author
Lucy Ash
Lucy Ash is an award-winning presenter of radio and TV documentaries. An expert on Russia and post-Soviet countries she was first sent to Moscow by the BBC in 1990 and has been covering the region’s social, political, and cultural issues ever since. The Baton and the Cross is her first book.
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