03519nam 2200589 450 991082052140332120230803030313.01-4674-3741-71-4674-3774-3(CKB)2670000000368551(PromptCat)40021851428(MH)013609591-7(SSID)ssj0001043102(PQKBManifestationID)12390651(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001043102(PQKBWorkID)11061385(PQKB)10238764(MiAaPQ)EBC4859339(Au-PeEL)EBL4859339(CaPaEBR)ebr11388424(OCoLC)988554581(EXLCZ)99267000000036855120170616h20132013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrDissident for life Alexander Ogorodnikov and the struggle for religious freedom in Russia /Koenraad De Wolf ; translated by Nancy Forest-Flier ; foreword by David AltonGrand Rapids, Michigan ;Cambridge, England :William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,2013.©20131 online resource (xii, 303 p., [32] p. of plates )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8028-6743-X Includes bibliographical references and indexes."This gripping book tells the largely unknown story of longtime Russian dissident Alexander Ogorodnikov -- from Communist youth to religious dissident, in the Gulag and back again. Ogorodnikov's courage has touched people from every walk of life, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher. In the 1970s Ogorodnikov performed a feat without precedent in the Soviet Union: he organized thousands of Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christians in an underground group called the Christian Seminar. When the KGB gave him the option to leave the Soviet Union rather than face the Gulag, he firmly declined because he wanted to change "his" Russia from the inside out. His willingness to sacrifice himself and be imprisoned meant leaving behind his wife and newborn child. Ogorodnikov spent nine years in the Gulag, barely surviving the horrors he encountered there. Despite KGB harassment and persecution after his release, he refused to compromise his convictions and went on to found the first free school in the Soviet Union, the first soup kitchen, and the first private shelter for orphans, among other accomplishments. Today this man continues to carry on his struggle against government detainments and atrocities, often alone. Readers will be amazed and inspired by Koenraad De Wolf's authoritative account of Ogorodnikov's life and work."--Publisher's website.DissentersSoviet UnionBiographyDissentersRussia (Federation)BiographyDissentersDissenters281.9092Wolf Koenraad de1610294Forest-Flier NancyAlton DavidMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820521403321Dissident for life3938012UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress