A Sacred Space Is Never Empty A History of Soviet Atheism |
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| Author:
| Smolkin, Victoria |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-19723-4 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2019 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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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 ne
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 ne