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