The God of the Gulag, Vol 1 and Vol 2
by Jonathan Luxmoore, Gracewing, £20 each
Jonathan Luxmoore, a writer who has specialised in Church news from Russia and Eastern Europe for many years, has written a superb history of Christian persecution under communism from its inception to its downfall. At 900 pages altogether, it has been a labour of many years as well as of love. In their breadth and meticulous research, these two volumes describe not just a broad survey of the fortunes of the Christian churches, mainly Catholic and Orthodox, within the USSR and behind the Iron Curtain, but also the heart-rending stories of those courageous individuals who refused to give up their faith and whose names have been forgotten for many decades.
