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John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak" (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)

New Books in Intellectual History

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God Builders: Faith and Revolution

This chapter examines the God Builders movement of the Bolshevik era and its contrasts with the prior God Seekers movement, highlighting the integration of religious symbolism into revolutionary ideology. It explores the complex interplay between secularism, morality, and politics among early Bolsheviks, illustrating how their atheistic beliefs coexisted with a reverence for Jesus Christ's moral teachings.

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