Paul E. Michelson

Cross and commissar : the politics of religion in Eastern Europe and the USSR

Preface Part I. Introduction 1. How Church and State Coexist under Communism 2. The Interplay of Religious Policy and Nationalities Policy Part II. Individual Countries 3. Social Functions of Religion in the USSR 4. Catholicism and National Culture in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary 5. Church and Peace in the German Democratic Republic 6. Factionalism in the Croatian Church-State Relationship 7. Organization Theory and the Bulgarian and Serbian OrthodoxChurches Part III. Current Trends 8. Religious Ferment, 1978-84 9. Protestants and Catholics after Popieluszko Part IV. Theoretical Considerations 10. Pitfalls in the Study of Church-State Relations 11. Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Church-State Interactionunder European Communism Notes Selected Bibliography Index

The great powers and Rumania, 1944-1946 : a study of the early cold war era

Taken from the Romanian viewpoint, this is a critical analysis of the different and often conflicting Allied interests - frequently unrelated to Romania itself - which brought about Romanias absorption into the Soviet orbit after World War II. The book also explores the potential of Romanian moderate forces, the rift within the Romanian Communist Party itself, and the difficult relationship between the Romanian Party and the Kremlin.