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

A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism Hardback - 2018

by Victoria Smolkin

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  • Title A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism
  • Author Victoria Smolkin
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Date 2018-05-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780691174273
  • ISBN 9780691174273 / 069117427X
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.88 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Library of Congress subjects History, Religion
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018935161
  • Dewey Decimal Code 211.809

From the rear cover

"This splendid book skillfully reveals the changing nature of religion in the USSR, the limits of secularization under Communism, and the important place of spirituality in the twentieth century. Smolkin exposes the striking irony of how Soviet authorities found themselves trying to replicate the spiritual and emotional offerings of religion even as they sought to destroy it."--Paul W. Werth, author of The Tsar's Foreign Faiths: Toleration and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia

"This is a very important book, highly innovative and superbly researched. Smolkin has written nothing less than a history of the making--and subsequent unmaking--of Soviet atheism. A must-read."--Denis Kozlov, author of The Readers of "Novyi Mir": Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past

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Citations

  • Choice, 12/01/2018, Page 0

About the author

Victoria Smolkin is assistant professor of history at Wesleyan University.