Chapter ID: CBB394122030

Inculcating Materialist Minds: Scientific Propaganda and Anti-Religion in the USSR During the Cold War (2016)

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After 1947, and the liquidation of the Union of Militant Atheists, the Soviet Znanie Society, besides scientific propaganda, had transferred to it the function of propagating atheistic views throughout the USSR. This chapter will analyze how the battle between scientific atheism and religious belief was waged from above domestically by the Soviet regime in the era of the Cold War. It will begin with an overview of the relationship between anti-religious propaganda and scientific enlightenment in the period 1918–1946, leading into the immediate post-Second World War era. The chapter will then analyze the Znanie Society’s role in this development during the early Cold War, document various well-known scientists and propagandists involved in its formation, as well as discuss its eventual fracturing from within.

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Book Paul Betts; Stephen A. Smith (2016) Science, Religion and Communism in Cold War Europe. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Chiaricati, Federico
Boldyrev, Ivan
Olessia Kirtchik
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Rogacheva, Maria
Simo Mikkonen
Concepts
Science and politics
Cold War
Propaganda
Science and society
Science and ethics
Atheism; agnosticism; irreligion
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Antarctica
Germany
Europe
Poland
Institutions
Genetics Society of America
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