Reading Time: 9 minutes To understand why the Communist Party abandoned atheism, we must go back to the beginning of the Soviet project, charting the ways in which the meaning of religion and atheism changed over time.
Victoria Smolkin
Dr. Smolkin is associate professor of history at Wesleyan University. Her work is focused on religion, atheism, utopianism, and cosmism in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union.