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Historians of the Catholic Church have mostly rejected the possibility that Communist countries played a role in the Second Vatican Council’s story, or that the Council in turn shaped the subsequent paths of those countries. The goal of this volume is to begin writing Central and Eastern Europe back into the story of the Second Vatican Council, its origins, and its consequences.

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“An intriguing, well-informed, and riveting treatment of the much overlooked impact of the Second Vatican Council on the Soviet Bloc . . . succeeds in tossing away the longentrenched concept of the “Church of Silence” as applicable to the Communist period.”—Mikolaj Kunicki, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford

Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain

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      Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
      Publication Date: 30/12/2016
      ISBN13: 9780813229126, 978-0813229126
      ISBN10: 081322912X
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      Book Synopsis
      Historians of the Catholic Church have mostly rejected the possibility that Communist countries played a role in the Second Vatican Council’s story, or that the Council in turn shaped the subsequent paths of those countries. The goal of this volume is to begin writing Central and Eastern Europe back into the story of the Second Vatican Council, its origins, and its consequences.

      Trade Review
      “An intriguing, well-informed, and riveting treatment of the much overlooked impact of the Second Vatican Council on the Soviet Bloc . . . succeeds in tossing away the longentrenched concept of the “Church of Silence” as applicable to the Communist period.”—Mikolaj Kunicki, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford

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