The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin Through Stalin [Hardcover]

Christopher Lawrence Zugger (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 556 pages
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd) (April 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815606796
• ISBN-13: 978-0815606796
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,598,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Father Christopher Zugger was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1954. A graduate of Saint Bonaventure University (1977) and Washington Theological Union (1981), he was ordained as a Catholic priest of the Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Church in 1981. He served in parishes in Maryland, New Jersey, Arizona and New Mexico. His first book, The Forgotten, was published in 2001, and he has written articles on Catholics in the Soviet Union, the Eastern Catholic Churches, and the American Byzantine Catholic Church. His second book, Finding a Hidden Church, on the secret life of an underground Catholic community in the USSR and its public revival, was released in 2009.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reviewing The Forgotten, September 10, 2003

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This review is from: The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin Through Stalin (Hardcover)

Father has written an important book on our history. Many of us have learned new information about the history of our Church, of people who suffered in the camps for the Faith, because we were not allowed to read about this. Often it was dangerous to even talk about people who had been taken away, or know the full name of a priest who came to serve Liturgy for us.
We now can worship freely, but still not always in our own churches. And conditions in some places are still strict against our Church. You cannot understand the modern problems between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and the pain of the underground believers, unless you read this book.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the german catholic colonies of russia, May 27, 2001

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tom hoffman (SUN CITY, CA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin Through Stalin (Hardcover)

Fr. ZUGGER's book, "THE FORGOTTEN" covers a portion of what has been covered up in this country on the fate of GERMAN settlers in Russia. Estimates of the amount of people killed under COMMUNISM, range around 1/6 of the population of the earth.

I have been working on the GERMAN CATHOLIC colonies of RUSSIA since 1950 and have a huge amount of material collected on these people. My fathers family immigrated to RUSSIA in 1767 and my mothers side in 1809.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An unforgettable history lesson, January 22, 2009

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David Walker "wing" (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire from Lenin Through Stalin (Hardcover)

I purchased this upon a friend's recommendation and balked at the number of pages when it arrived. It was not an easy read for me because of it's fragmented time-line, unfamiliar terms, personages and geographical references. In spite of these stumbling blocks I was captivated by the book's historical insights. It's different from the "mass media" history I was taught. This is the battle of evil against good. Before reading the book I thought I knew how tricky politicians could be to get power. I was wrong. I recommend the book just to give more insight into Russian History and the Russian mind. You just may recognize some techniques being pulled here in the United States. I guess politics and evil don't change no matter what the ideology is called.