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A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
Victoria Smolkin
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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.
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life.
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.
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Seventh-day Adventist Church, Soviet people, Religion, Religious education, Soviet Union, Utopia, Obstacle, World view, Marxism and religion, Lithuania, Perestroika, Secularization, Communism, Infidel, The Other Hand, Intelligentsia, Mikhail Gorbachev, Stalinism, Rhetoric, Socialist society (Labour Party), Christianity, Marxism, Mitrokhin, Relationship between religion and science, Religious organization, Russian Revolution, Activism, Russian Orthodox Church, Modernity, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Marxism–Leninism, Decree, Yuri Slezkine, Theology, Religiosity, On Religion, Backwardness, New Atheism, Leninism, Politics, Seminary, Orthodoxy, Bolsheviks, Communist society, Social science, Leonid Brezhnev, Secularism, Rite, De-Stalinization, Cultural Revolution, Nikita Khrushchev, Central Committee, Atheism, Clergy, Baptists, Lecture, Political party, Ideology, V., Patriotism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Philosophy, Iconoclasm, Superiority (short story), Religious community, Philosopher, Political repression, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Religion in the Soviet Union, Dissolution of the Soviet Union