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The Antireligious Museum: Soviet Heterotopia between Transcending and Remembering Religious Heritage (2016)

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During the years following the establishment of the Soviet Union Bolsheviks, efforts to eradicate religion highlighted the old cults, against which the atheist heroes and the supremacy of the secular worldview shone all the more brightly. Institutions that preserved religion even as they were devoted to destroying it—the so-called antireligious museums, also known as ‘Museums of Atheism’—were characteristic landmarks in every major city of the USSR until the late 1980s. Using the case of the Museums of Atheism, this chapter assesses the specific transformation of belief imposed by state-sponsored atheism in the broader transnational context of religious reinforcement and dislocation of belief during the last decades of the twentieth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Verardi, Donato
Zsuzsánna Magdó
Smith, Stephen A.
Catriona Kelly
Logan, Alison M. B.
Weldon, Stephen P.
Concepts
Science and religion
Atheism; agnosticism; irreligion
Controversies and disputes
Communism
Psychology
Physical anthropology
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
19th century
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Leningrad (Soviet Union)
Connecticut (U.S.)
Eastern Europe
Romania
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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