LEADER 03519nam 2200589 450 001 9910820521403321 005 20230803030313.0 010 $a1-4674-3741-7 010 $a1-4674-3774-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000368551 035 $a(PromptCat)40021851428 035 $a(MH)013609591-7 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001043102 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12390651 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001043102 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11061385 035 $a(PQKB)10238764 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4859339 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4859339 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11388424 035 $a(OCoLC)988554581 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000368551 100 $a20170616h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDissident for life $eAlexander Ogorodnikov and the struggle for religious freedom in Russia /$fKoenraad De Wolf ; translated by Nancy Forest-Flier ; foreword by David Alton 210 1$aGrand Rapids, Michigan ;$aCambridge, England :$cWilliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 303 p., [32] p. of plates )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8028-6743-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 330 $a"This gripping book tells the largely unknown story of longtime Russian dissident Alexander Ogorodnikov -- from Communist youth to religious dissident, in the Gulag and back again. Ogorodnikov's courage has touched people from every walk of life, including world leaders such as Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher. In the 1970s Ogorodnikov performed a feat without precedent in the Soviet Union: he organized thousands of Protestant, Orthodox, and Catholic Christians in an underground group called the Christian Seminar. When the KGB gave him the option to leave the Soviet Union rather than face the Gulag, he firmly declined because he wanted to change "his" Russia from the inside out. His willingness to sacrifice himself and be imprisoned meant leaving behind his wife and newborn child. Ogorodnikov spent nine years in the Gulag, barely surviving the horrors he encountered there. Despite KGB harassment and persecution after his release, he refused to compromise his convictions and went on to found the first free school in the Soviet Union, the first soup kitchen, and the first private shelter for orphans, among other accomplishments. Today this man continues to carry on his struggle against government detainments and atrocities, often alone. Readers will be amazed and inspired by Koenraad De Wolf's authoritative account of Ogorodnikov's life and work."--$cPublisher's website. 606 $aDissenters$zSoviet Union$vBiography 606 $aDissenters$zRussia (Federation)$vBiography 615 0$aDissenters 615 0$aDissenters 676 $a281.9092 700 $aWolf$b Koenraad de$01610294 702 $aForest-Flier$b Nancy 702 $aAlton$b David 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820521403321 996 $aDissident for life$93938012 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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