A Sacred Space Is Never Empty : : A History of Soviet Atheism /

A Sacred Space Is Never Empty : : A History of Soviet Atheism / / Victoria Smolkin.

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...

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Smolkin, Victoria,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 12 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter one. The Religious Front
  • Chapter two. The Specter Haunting Soviet Communism
  • Chapter three. Cosmic Enlightenment
  • Chapter four. The Ticket to the Soviet Soul
  • Chapter five. "We have to Figure Out Where We Lost People"
  • Chapter six. The Communist Party between State and Church
  • Chapter seven. The Socialist Way of Life
  • Conclusion. Utopia's Orphan
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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