发表于2024-11-08
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 宗教 历史 Religion(s) 文学 资源 苏联史 无神论 世界史
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.
Victoria Smolkin is assistant professor of history at Wesleyan University.
选题很好,内容与深度其实一般,有些anecdotes倒是很有意思
评分smolkin写东西和她assign reading的思路真是连贯一致…区别大概是她自己写的东西还挺好读/skim的 lol
评分smolkin写东西和她assign reading的思路真是连贯一致…区别大概是她自己写的东西还挺好读/skim的 lol
评分选题很好,内容与深度其实一般,有些anecdotes倒是很有意思
评分smolkin写东西和她assign reading的思路真是连贯一致…区别大概是她自己写的东西还挺好读/skim的 lol
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书