Book Talk. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism by Victoria Smolkin
Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York CityJoin the Harriman Institute and the Institute for the Study of Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) for a talk with author Victoria Smolkin about her book A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism (Princeton University Press, 2018). When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to…