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Socialist Churches: Heritage Preservation and "Cultic Buildings" in Leningrad, 1924-1940
- Abstract:
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The demolition of churches is a notorious episode in Soviet political history, normally discussed in the context of the history of church-state relations. Yet which prerevolutionary buildings were meant to fit into a "model socialist city" such as Leningrad and how this was to happen was also a planning issue. Soviet planners (unlike members of the militant atheist movement) drew a distinction between buildings and their (current or possible) functions. The monument protection agencies were o...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- SLAVIC REVIEW
- Volume:
- 71
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 792-+
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0037-6779
- Source identifiers:
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375595
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- English
- Pubs id:
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- 2012
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