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csp-59	Menshikov, Andrey S.	Victoria Smolkin (2018). A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism. Princeton University Press	2018	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1490	55	35	Victoria Smolkin book – the monumental exposition of the history of Soviet atheism – analyzes it in its complexity and multidimensionality tracing its development from an ideological precept of Marxism-Leninism to the state policy of expunging Russian Orthodoxy from the Soviet public life, to social science methodology in the study of religion, to philosophical inquiry into the nature of spirituality and moral commitment. Thus, the challenge of intractable religious beliefs and practices along with the developing academic study of religions forced the Soviet ideologues to reconsider their very understanding of the nature of religion and to rethink their strategy of eliminating religion.	cache/csp-59.pdf	txt/csp-59.txt