Princeton University Press Publishes 'A Sacred Space Is Never Empty'
October 29, 2019
October 29, 2019
PRINCETON, New Jersey, Oct. 29 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description:
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism, by 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 mono . . .
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism, by 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 mono . . .