Passion and Resurrection is the rather exciting story of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (eastern liturgically but acknowledging the Pope). Based in the former Austrian west, its home territories suddenly found themselves part of Soviet Ukraine after World War II (in between they were mostly contained in Poland and Czechoslovakia). The Soviet authorities decided , but the Western Ukrainians refused to give up and even extended their church's reach to new areas as they were exiled to Siberia and Central Asia. Ultimately in the 1980s under renewed pressure from the Ukrainian population and from Pope John Paul II, the Soviet Union had no choice but to acknowledge the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church's existence.

An interesting book written during interesting times about an interesting topic. ( )