The Baton and the Cross by Lucy Ash

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/225710 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Baton and the Cross Author: Lucy Ash Narrator: Lucy Ash Format: mp3 Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins Release date: 11-07-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Russian & Soviet Publisher's Summary: For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills—from the Mongol yoke, to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, Soviet atheism, the chaotic 1990s and now two decades of Vladimir Putin. In this provocative new book, Lucy Ash reveals how, under Putin, religion is being stripped of its spiritual content and used as a weapon to control the population in a way never seen before. Orthodox clerics and their acolytes are trying to drag Russia backwards into a new Middle Ages.