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

Andrews, James T. (Author)

Pages: 105-125
Publication date: 2016
Language: English

URI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-54639-5_5

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Science and religion Science and politics Propaganda Cold War Atheism; agnosticism; irreligion 20th century Soviet Union

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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