"A cultural history of the collapse of the USSR, focused on the highly visible flourishing of radical spiritual movements and worldviews that emerged in Soviet cities at that time, revealing the nature of Soviet ideology as it unraveled and the common features of societies undergoing crisis"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
1. The Astrologers: As Above, So Below
2. The Hare Krishnas: Let Communism Live Forever
3. The Vissarion Sect: Those Who Know History
4. Anatolii Fomenko at the End of History
Conclusion