Soviet Antireligious Campaigns And Persecutions
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Soviet Antireligious Campaigns And Persecutions
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Author : Dimitry V Pospielovsky
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1988-01-19
Soviet Antireligious Campaigns And Persecutions written by Dimitry V Pospielovsky and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-19 with Political Science categories.
Soviet Antireligious Campaigns And Persecutions
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Author : Dimitry Pospielovsky
language : en
Publisher: Basingstoke [England] : Macmillan
Release Date : 1988
Soviet Antireligious Campaigns And Persecutions written by Dimitry Pospielovsky and has been published by Basingstoke [England] : Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Political Science categories.
Soviet Antireligious Campaigns And Persecutions
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Author : Dimitry V. Pospielovsky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Soviet Antireligious Campaigns And Persecutions written by Dimitry V. Pospielovsky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
The Dangerous God
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Author : Dominic Erdozain
language : en
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-02
The Dangerous God written by Dominic Erdozain and has been published by Northern Illinois University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with History categories.
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 project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the deficiencies of the Soviet leadership or the chaos of a "command" economy. Beneath the rhetoric of scientific communism was a culture of intellectual and cultural dissidence, which may be regarded as the "prehistory of perestroika." This volume explores the contribution of Christian thought and belief to this culture of dissent and survival, showing how religious and secular streams of resistance joined in an unexpected and powerful partnership. The essays in The Dangerous God seek to shed light on the dynamic and subversive capacities of religious faith in a context of brutal oppression, while acknowledging the often-collusive relationship between clerical elites and the Soviet authorities. Against the Marxist notion of the "ideological" function of religion, the authors set the example of people for whom faith was more than an opiate; against an enduring mythology of secularization, they propose the centrality of religious faith in the intellectual, political, and cultural life of the late modern era. This volume will appeal to specialists on religion in Soviet history as well as those interested in the history of religion under totalitarian regimes.
History Of Marxist Leninist Atheism And Soviet Antireligious
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Author : Dimitry V Pospielovsky
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1987-09-29
History Of Marxist Leninist Atheism And Soviet Antireligious written by Dimitry V Pospielovsky and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-09-29 with Political Science categories.
Religious Persecution In The Soviet Union
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Political and Military Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Religious Persecution In The Soviet Union written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Political and Military Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Freedom of religion categories.
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
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Author : Victoria Smolkin
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-29
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty written by Victoria Smolkin and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with History categories.
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.
Silent Churches
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Author : Peter J. Babris
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
Release Date : 1978
Silent Churches written by Peter J. Babris and has been published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Through the aid of many institutions (e.g. Institutum Balticum, Radio Liberty Research, Radio Free Europe) and individuals the author has gathered a vast amount of factual information on the current state of religion in communist Eastern Europe. He has examined it warily and illustrates that the churches are not silent - the title is ironic but the faithful are all under siege, from peer pressure to outright murder, from confiscation of property to its destruction. Yet even the Soviets are beginning to discern that their faith cannot be crushed. The evidence presented is not only surprising, it is occasionally infuriating, namely the remaining silent of the World Council of Churches and his unblushing pro-Marxist supply of guerrilla factions in Africa. The author's efforts will have been worthwhile if the reader realises that freedom of religion is not guaranteed behind the Iron Curtain despite press releases to the contrary.
History Of Soviet Atheism In Theory And Practice And The Believer
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Author : Dimitry V Pospielovsky
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1988-07-29
History Of Soviet Atheism In Theory And Practice And The Believer written by Dimitry V Pospielovsky and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-07-29 with Religion categories.
Voices Of The Voiceless
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Author : Julie K. deGraffenried
language : en
Publisher: 1845 Books
Release Date : 2019
Voices Of The Voiceless written by Julie K. deGraffenried and has been published by 1845 Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Communism and religion categories.
In 1969, at the height of the Cold War, a group of British Christian researchers and activists, moved by the persecution of believers in the Soviet Union, established an organization dedicated to the study of religion under communism. They had two major goals: to educate the public about religious persecution and to promote academic analysis of religion in communist societies. The organization they founded, eventually named Keston College, amassed an extraordinary collection of primary source and research materials, used by its personnel to document the experiences of persecuted believers in the Soviet bloc and beyond and to publicize human rights violations against believers of all faiths. This formed the basis of a unique collection, called the Keston Archive, now at Baylor University. Voices of the Voiceless, edited by Julie deGraffenried and Zoe Knox, presents readers with twenty-five essays on a curated selection of images and artifacts from the Keston Archive. Some of the world's leading authorities on religion and communism as well as experts personally involved with the operation of Keston College carefully selected and provided commentary for these images. The archival material presented in the book offers vivid testimony of this critically important era in the history of religion and of the Cold War. A guided look into the past, Voices of the Voiceless reveals the power of what atheist and antireligious regimes sought to silence. This collection documents how believers fought for religious freedom, coped with oppression, and practiced their faith, individually and collectively, in states hostile to religion. It also presents atheist propaganda produced by communist regimes that aimed to marginalize and ultimately eradicate religion. This book offers insights into how faith survived--and even flourished--during one of the most intense antireligious campaigns of the modern era.