Dissent on the Margins

Emily B. Baran offers a gripping history of how a small American-based religious community the Jehovah's Witnesses found its way into the Soviet Union after World War II survived decades of brutal persecution and emerged as one of the region's fastest growing religions after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. In telling the story of this often misunderstood faith Baran explores the shifting boundaries of religious dissent non-conformity and human rights in the Soviet Union and its successor states.