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Religion in the Soviet Union
Language: en
Pages: 425
Authors: F. Corley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-08-27 - Publisher: Springer

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The Soviet government's attitude to religion in theory and practice is shown in this wide-ranging collection of annotated texts from the newly-opened archives.
Christian Religion in the Soviet Union
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Christel Lane
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1978-06-30 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Christel Lane has written the first sociological study of religion in a communist and militantly atheist society. Christian Religion in the Soviet Union is the
Religious Policy in the Soviet Union
Language: en
Pages: 383
Authors: Sabrina P. Ramet
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s the state was politically
The Dangerous God
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Dominic Erdozain
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-02 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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At the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The projec
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Victoria Smolkin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-29 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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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-