Author: Dimitry V Pospielovsky
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349193577
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Author: Dimitry Pospielovsky
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312009052
Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Dimitry Pospielovsky
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312381325
Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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Dimitry V. Pospielovsky here outlines the theoretical and ideological foundations of Soviet atheism from Feuerbach and Marx to Khrushchev and Andropov, demonstrating that the Soviet intolerance towards any Faith in God is an inseparable part of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine and that the persecutions never cease, even during the current showcase tolerance of the top administrations for Soviet foreign policies in their public declarations.

Author: Dimitry Pospielovsky
Publisher:
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Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Dimitry V Pospielovsky
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349190020
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: Dimitri V. Pospielovsky
Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Author: Dimitry Pospielovsky
Publisher: Basingstoke [England] : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Victoria Smolkin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691197237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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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--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.

Author: Dmitrij V. Pospelovskij
Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Author: Julian Baggini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192804243
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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Do you think of atheists as immoral pessimists who live their lives without meaning, purpose, or values? Think again! Atheism: A Very Short Introduction sets out to dispel the myths that surround atheism and show how a life without religious belief can be positive, meaningful, and moral.