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Godless Communists

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Description for Godless Communists Paperback. Exploring the confrontation between atheism and the lower classes' traditional beliefs, this work offers a fresh interpretation of early Soviet efforts to create an atheistic, scientific society. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HRQA5; JH; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.

"Godless Communists" offers a fresh interpretation of early Soviet efforts to create an atheistic, scientific society. William B. Husband shows that religion, contrary to Bolshevik assertions, was not merely an expression of gullibility and ignorance but a firmly entrenched system for ordering family and community relationships. The Bolsheviks' efforts to abolish the Church failed because they underestimated how tightly religious beliefs were woven into the fabric of the Russians' daily lives. Exploring the confrontation between secularism and the lower classes' traditional beliefs, "Godless Communists" illustrates how developments between 1917 and 1932 shaped the attitudes toward religion and atheism that endure ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875805955
SKU
V9780875805955
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About William B. Husband
William B. Husband is Professor Emeritus at Oregon State University. He is the author of Revolution in the Factory: The Birth of the Soviet Textile Industry, 1917–1920 and the editor of The Human Tradition in Modern Russia.

Reviews for Godless Communists
Valuable. 'Godless Communists' provides an abundance of evidence for belief as a complex and changing cultural phenomenon.
Slavic Review
The best and most comprehensive treatment of its subject to date.
Choice
Elegantly written.... A sophisticated, unjaundiced treatment of Orthodoxy after 1917.
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