A Sacred Space Is Never Empty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Sacred Space Is Never Empty write by Victoria Smolkin. This book was released on 2019-10-29. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.
Is Nothing Sacred?
Is Nothing Sacred? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Is Nothing Sacred? write by Salman Rushdie. This book was released on 1990. Is Nothing Sacred? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
To See Paris and Die
To See Paris and Die - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To See Paris and Die write by Eleonory Gilburd. This book was released on 2018-12-28. To See Paris and Die available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year Winner of the AATSEEL Prize for Best Book in Cultural Studies Winner of the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies Winner of the Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize Winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize The Soviet Union was a notoriously closed society until Stalin’s death in 1953. Then, in the mid-1950s, a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes, acquiring heightened emotional significance. To See Paris and Die is a history of this momentous opening to the West. At the heart of this history is a process of translation, in which Western figures took on Soviet roles: Pablo Picasso as a political rabble-rouser; Rockwell Kent as a quintessential American painter; Erich Maria Remarque and Ernest Hemingway as teachers of love and courage under fire; J. D. Salinger and Giuseppe De Santis as saviors from Soviet clichés. Imported novels challenged fundamental tenets of Soviet ethics, while modernist paintings tested deep-seated notions of culture. Western films were eroticized even before viewers took their seats. The drama of cultural exchange and translation encompassed discovery as well as loss. Eleonory Gilburd explores the pleasure, longing, humiliation, and anger that Soviet citizens felt as they found themselves in the midst of this cross-cultural encounter. The main protagonists of To See Paris and Die are small-town teachers daydreaming of faraway places, college students vicariously discovering a wider world, and factory engineers striving for self-improvement. They invested Western imports with political and personal significance, transforming foreign texts into intimate belongings. With the end of the Soviet Union, the Soviet West disappeared from the cultural map. Gilburd’s history reveals how domesticated Western imports defined the last three decades of the Soviet Union, as well as its death and afterlife.
Outwitting the Devil
Outwitting the Devil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Outwitting the Devil write by Napoleon Hill. This book was released on 2011. Outwitting the Devil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.
Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui write by Karen Kingston. This book was released on 2015-10-28. Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Clear Your Clutter and Transform Your Life! Clutter is trapped energy that has far-reaching effects physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. The simple act of clearing clutter can transform your life by releasing negative emotions, generating energy, and allowing you to create space in your life for the things you want to achieve. In Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, Karen Kingston, pioneer of a branch of Feng Shui known as Space Clearing, expertly guides you through the liberating task of clutter clearing. You will learn: Why you keep clutter How to identify and clear clutter in your home or workplace How to clear clutter from your body, mind, and spirit How to stay clutter-free
