Religion and science were fundamental aspects of Eastern European communist political culture from the very beginning, and remained in uneasy tension across the

Although seen widely as the twentieth-century's great religious war, as a conflict between the god-fearing and the godless, the religious dimension of the Cold

When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools-

This book explores how conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the 20th century.

Debates on the role of Christian Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe too often remain strongly tied to national historiographies. With the edited collection