title: 7. Seeing Is (Un)believing: Anticlericalism in Soviet Antireligious Posters
abstract: The Soviet antireligious crusade radically reshaped the visual landscape of the USSR.Antireligious posters provide insight into Soviet efforts to suppress and manage faith communities and belief in the USSR and are one among many elements of an unparalleled sensory renovation accompanying the antireligious campaigns.From 1917 until 1985, dozens of graphic artists produced hundreds of posters that disparaged religious practices, persons, institutions, and attitudes and offered the posters' creato
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