The god of the gulag : volume 2 : martyrs in an age of secularism
Jonathan Luxmoore2015
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Main title:
The god of the gulag : volume 2 : martyrs in an age of secularism / Jonathan Luxmoore
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Imprint:
Leominster : Gracewing, 2015
Collation:
484 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
By the end of the 1950s, more than four decades had passed since Lenin and his Bolshevik followers had first seized power in Russia. Open brutality and terror had given way to administrative forms of repression and control. But the aim of communism was still very much alive-to create an egalitarian society ruled by the working class under the direction of the Party avant-garde. Intimidation and coercion by the secret police were still indispensable tools for pursuing that aim. Hostility to the Church and contempt for religious faith were still fundamental to the communist programme.
ISBN:
9780852445846
Dewey class:
211 .6
Language:
English
BRN:
1820701