A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism by Victoria Smolkin

A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism

Victoria Smolkin

339 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 withou...

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