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A sacred space is never empty: a history of Soviet atheism

By Victoria , Smolkin

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN
9780691174273, 9781400890101, 1400890101
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (5880285 bytes)
Series
Princeton foundations of contemporary philosophy.; Princeton scholarship online
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Atheism;Atheism--Soviet Union;Communism and religi

Description

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools - from education to propaganda to terror - to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. This text presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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