“Much more than a collection of graphic images… It is a scrupulous study of the intolerant attitude of the Soviet government to religion and attempts to equate it with all conceivable and inconceivable human sins...There has never been a book of this kind in Western Sovietology, and [Godless Utopia] offers the reader a unique look at one of the most interesting aspects of the ideology that prevailed in the USSR for seven decades”. —Alexander Kan, BBC Russian
“A combination of primer on the history of Soviet state atheism and art book collecting insulting caricatures of deities and their earthly representatives, [Godless Utopia] vividly captures a sustained, blasphemous, mocking, abusive intolerance so vicious that the so-called New Atheists of the mid-2000s come off like Keith Harris and Orville in comparison”. —Daniel Kalder, Unherd
“Students of Russian history will welcome the publication of Godless Utopia…but so too will art historians, religious scholars, as well as observers of Russia's cultural history and indeed anyone who has embarked on the quixotic search for the elusive Russian soul”.—Jennifer Eremeeva, The Moscow Times