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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Sacred Space Is Never Empty
• Author: Victoria Smolkin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 360
• EAN: 9780691174273
• ISBN: 9780691174273
• ID: 18195003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 660 g
• Dimensions: 164 × 242 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. May 2018

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