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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Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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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