The Dangerous God – Christianity and the Soviet Experiment Erdozain Paperback

The Dangerous GodChristianity and the Soviet Experiment\nAuthor(s): Dominic Erdozain\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Northern Illinois University Press\nISBN-13: 9780875807706, 978-0875807706\nSynopsis\nAt the heart of the Soviet experiment was a belief in the impermanence of the human spirit: souls could be engineered; conscience could be destroyed. The project was, in many ways, chillingly successful. But the ultimate failure of a totalitarian regime to fulfill its ambitions for social and spiritual mastery had roots deeper than the deficiencies of the Soviet leadership or the chaos of a \""command\"" economy. Beneath the rhetoric of scientific communism was a culture of intellectual and cultural dissidence, which may be regarded as the \""prehistory of perestroika.\"" This volume explores the contribution of Christian thought and belief to this culture of dissent and survival, showing how religious and secular streams of resistance join.