Table of Contents

About the Editors and Contributors, Preface, 1. Introduction, I. Russia, 2. The Russian Orthodox Church as an Empire-Saving Institution, 3. The Russian Orthodox Church in the Postcommunist CIS, 4. Civil Society and Religion in Traditional Political Culture: The Case of Russia, 5. The Church and Politics in Contemporary Russia, 6. Glasnost and the Gospel: The Emergence of Religious Pluralism, II. The Western Newly Independent States, 7. Politics and Religion in Ukraine: The Orthodox and the Greek Catholics, 8. Politics and Religion in Ukraine: In Search of a New Pluralistic Dimension, 9. The Kiev Patriarchate and the State, 10. The Baltic Churches and the Democratization Process, III. The Southern Newly Independent States, 11. Religion and Politics in the Caucasus, 12. Islam as Faith, Politics, and Bogeyman in Tajikistan, 13. Islam and the Political Culture ofScientific Atheism in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Future Predicaments, 14. Independent Uzbekistan: A Muslim Community in Development, Appendix: Project Participants, Index

About the Author

Starr, S. Frederick; Dawisha, Karen