God and the Death of Communism

Issue Date January 1993
Volume 4
Issue 1
Page Numbers 126-29
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A review of The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, by  George Weigel.

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Philip J. Costopoulos is executive editor of the Journal of Democracy.

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