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02993aam a2200409 i 4500 001 EEA04F7AB05F11EA86A2D96D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200617010021 008 190823s2019 enka b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0995745579 020 $a 9780995745575 035 $a (OCoLC)1120065400 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d ERASA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UAB $d NYP $d YDX $d SILO 043 $a e-ur--- 050 4 $a BL2765.S65 $b B76 2019 082 04 $a 322/.109470904 $2 23 100 1 $a Brown, Roland Elliott, $e author. 245 10 $a Godless utopia / $c Roland Elliott Brown. 246 34 $a Godless utopia : $b Soviet anti-religious propaganda 246 30 $a Soviet anti-religious propaganda 264 1 $a London : $b Murray & Sorrell Fuel Ltd, FUEL Design & Publishing, $c 2019. 300 $a 191 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references 520 $a "'We've finished the earthly tsars and we're coming for the heavenly ones!' Thus spoke the Soviet Union's first atheist propagandists as they declared war on "the opium of the people" across the USSR. Soviet atheism is the great lost subject of the 20th century. Pope Pius XI led a "crusade of prayer" against it; George Orwell satirized it in Animal Farm; the Nazis called it a Jewish plot; Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured Stalin to abandon it: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn blamed it for Russia's catastrophes; and Ronald Reagan put it at the core of his "Evil Empire" speech. And yet, because the Soviet Union promoted atheism almost entirely for domestic consumption, decades' worth of arcane and astonishing anti-religious imagery remains unknown in the West. Drawing on the early Soviet atheist magazines Godless and Godless at the Machine, and postwar posters by Communist Party publishers, author Roland Elliott Brown presents an unsettling tour of atheist ideology in the USSR. Here are uncanny, imaginative and downright blasphemous visions from the very guts of the Soviet atheist apparatus: sinister priests rub shoulders with cross-bearing colonial torturers, greedy mullahs, a cyclopean Jehovah and a crypto-fascist Jesus; Russian cosmonauts mock God from space while vigilant border guards nab American Bible smugglers. Godless Utopia is the occult grimoire of a lost socialist anti-theology."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Atheism $z Soviet Union. 650 0 $a Socialist propaganda $z Soviet Union. 650 0 $a Graphic arts $z Soviet Union. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x Social conditions. 650 7 $a Atheism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00819974 650 7 $a Graphic arts. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00946595 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 650 7 $a Socialist propaganda. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123738 651 7 $a Soviet Union. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210281 655 7 $a Informational works. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317020835.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EEA04F7AB05F11EA86A2D96D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search