Socialist Churches : : Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918–1988 /

Socialist Churches : : Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918–1988 / / Catriona Kelly.

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In Russia, legislation on the separation of church and state in early 1918 marginalized religious faith and raised pressing questions about what was to be done with church buildings. While associated with suspect beliefs, they were also regarded as structures with potential practical uses, and some...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Kelly, Catriona,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2016
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.) :; 34 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations and Glossary
  • Note on Translation
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Introduction "October Has Caught Up with the Church" The Separation of Church and State, 191 8-1923
  • 2 Monuments to the Golden Age The Canons of Preservation, 1924-1928
  • 3 Churches in the Socialist City Crash Industrialization, Rational Atheism, and City Planning, 1 929-1940
  • 4 The Great Patriotic Church? Wartime Destruction, Postwar Reconstruction, 1941-1953
  • 5 The Scientific Assault on God Church-Monuments in the Khrushchev Era, 1953-1964
  • 6 Cynosures of the City Church Buildings as Notional Heritage, 1965-1988
  • Conclusion
  • A Note on Sources
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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