The League of the Militant Godless

About the Lecture: The speaker will discuss Soviet antireligious activism and propaganda, taking a look at "volunteer" activism and analyzing the artistic renderings of religion in Bezbozhnik - the propaganda apparatus of the League of the Militant Godless. This event is sponsored by the Center for Intermarium Studies and the Kosciuszko Chair of Polish Studies at IWP. About the Speaker: Helen Lamm is from the great state of South Carolina. In 2017, she graduated magna cum laude from Wofford College with a degree in Chinese and History. She is currently studying Statecraft and International Affairs with a concentration in American Foreign Policy at The Institute of World Politics. She is interested in the politics of post-communism, and focuses much of her writing on the interplay of religion and politics. This paper was submitted for completion of Dr. Marek Chodakiewicz's 2018 spring course on Russian Politics.