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[MANUAL FOR SOVIET UKRAINIAN ATHEISTS] 100 zapytan’ bezbozhnykam (Zbirka zapytan’ ta vidpovidei na dopomogu antyreligiinykam) [i.e. 100 Questions for the Godless. A Collection of Questions and Answers to Assist Antireligious People]

Ivanovs’kyi, A.

Item #2780

Kharkiv: Derzhavne vydavnytstvo Ukrainy, 1930. 134, [1] pp. 20,5x15 cm. In original wrappers with letterpress design. Spine and cover edges restored, some soiling, pale water stains, otherwise good.

Third revised edition. In Ukrainian.

The book was published as a handy guide for the “ordinary godless person” or a godless speaker, intended to help him answer the most common "tricky" questions posed by believers around him. As in Soviet Russia, the all-Union movement of militant atheists was also active in Soviet Ukraine. They actively promoted atheism in schools, published anti-religious literature, ridiculed religion, and organized demonstrations and theatrical performances.

This handbook informed the newly enrolled godless about religion in general and its role, Christian and Jewish terminology and history, the status of religion and the church in the USSR, and sectarianism. It includes a bibliographic list of further reading on the topics of religion, atheism, miracles, the soul, and so on.

Answers on the common questions were meticulously compiled from various issues of the magazine “Bezbozhnik” (The Godless) of 1926 and 1927, as well as from its Ukrainian counterpart “Bezvirnyk” of 1927. Besides them, the compiler used the books “The Anti-Religious Primer” and “Atheist Worker”.

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Price: $750.00