In the Shadow of Godlessness: Soviet Atheists, Proletarian Freethinkers, and the Fate of Secularism in Interwar Europe.

IF 0.9 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1353/jhi.2025.a966906

Victoria Smolkin, Daniel Peris

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Abstract

This essay examines how the transnational interactions of two secularist organizations, the International of Proletarian Freethinkers (IPF) and the Soviet League of Militant Godless (League), and their social contexts, shaped the meaning, direction, and fate, of secularism in interwar Europe. It shows that while Soviet atheism played a central role in European secularism, its actual reach and influence abroad was indirect and, ultimately, limited. It also argues that Soviet atheism's most significant impact was the consolidation of an anti-secularist alliance against "Godless Communism" that cast a shadow long after the decline of atheism in the Soviet Union itself.

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在无神论的阴影下：苏联无神论者，无产阶级自由思想家，以及两次世界大战之间欧洲世俗主义的命运。

本文考察了两个世俗主义组织——无产阶级自由思想者国际（IPF）和苏联战斗无神论联盟（League）——的跨国互动，以及它们的社会背景，如何塑造了两次世界大战之间欧洲世俗主义的意义、方向和命运。这表明，虽然苏联无神论在欧洲世俗主义中发挥了核心作用，但它在国外的实际影响是间接的，而且最终是有限的。它还认为，苏联无神论最重要的影响是巩固了一个反世俗主义联盟，反对“无神论的共产主义”，这在无神论在苏联本身衰落很久之后投下了阴影。

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