Socialist churches : radical secularization and the preservation of the past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988 /

Kelly, Catriona,

Socialist churches : radical secularization and the preservation of the past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988 / Catriona Kelly. - DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

"October has caught up with the church": the separation of church and state, 1918-1923 -- Monuments to the golden age: the canons of preservation, 1924-1928 -- Churches in the Socialist city: crash industrialization, rational Atheism, and city planning, 1929-1940 -- The great patriotic church war destruction, post-war reconstruction, 1941-1953 -- The scientific assault on God: church-monuments in the Khrushchev era, 1953-1964 -- Cynosures of the city: church buildings as national heritage, 1965-1988.



9781609092047 9781501757587

2016031749


Atheism--Soviet Union.
Church buildings--Soviet Union.
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration--Soviet Union.


Electronic Books.

BL2765 / .S635 2016