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

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

Just published: Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton), "A Case Study in Soviet Political Religion: Modernism, The USSR in Construction, and Stalin's Russia" ("Religion Compass", 5 [11], November 2011: pp. 685-97).

Quote: "The following article provides a case study in political religion theory via exploration of a neglected Soviet journal ... which appeared between January 1930 and June 1941 ... 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'."

A Case Study in Soviet Political Religion: Modernism, The USSR in Construction, and Stalin’s Russia - Feldman - 2011 - Religion Compass - Wiley Online Library