A Case Study in Soviet Political Religion: Modernism, The USSR in Construction, and Stalin’s Russia

The following article provides a case study in political religion theory via exploration of a neglected Soviet journal, the USSR in Construction [SSSR na Stroike]. This journal, which appeared between January 1930 and June 1941, was ultimately published in five languages, and represented an importan...

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1. VerfasserIn: Feldman, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
In: Religion compass
Jahr: 2011, Band: 5, Heft: 11, Seiten: 685-697
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Zusammenfassung:The following article provides a case study in political religion theory via exploration of a neglected Soviet journal, the USSR in Construction [SSSR na Stroike]. This journal, which appeared between January 1930 and June 1941, was ultimately published in five languages, and represented an important, propagandistic face to the non-communist world. Despite the entrenchment of Socialist Realism at the time, this avant-garde publication continued to be published monthly by Stalin’s regime - until the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany. Contributors may be seen as propagandists, strangely enough, in an etymological sense: propagators of a faith - in this case a ‘political theology’- on behalf of a Stalinist utopia that they believed was currently ‘under construction’.
ISSN:1749-8171
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religion compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00320.x