Religion in Soviet Russia 1917-1942

New York: Sheed & Ward, 1942. First Edition. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; green top-stain; xvi,171pp. Straight, clean copy with top-stain slightly faded; Very Good or better. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly toned one spine with nicks and small losses along upper margin (not affecting printed areas); Very Good.

A detailed analysis of the evolution of state suppression of religion in the Soviet Union. An important but lesser-known work by the esteemed emigré sociologist and legal scholar N.S. Timasheff (1886-1970), long-time chair of the Department of Sociology at Fordham University.