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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466342703321

Autore

Kelly Catriona

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

DeKalb, Illinois : , : Northern Illinois University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5017-5758-X

1-60909-204-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Disciplina

322/.109470904

Soggetti

Atheism - Soviet Union

Church buildings - Soviet Union

Historic buildings - Conservation and restoration - Soviet Union

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.