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“ Florensky was one of the speakers in a series of debates between religious believers and atheists that were sponsored by the Bolsheviks in the first years after the revolution. They began to draw huge crowds and, though stacked with party activists, often ended in applause for the religious speakers. This led to their discontinuation by the regime.
From Sergei Demidov and Charles Ford, “On the Road to a Unified World View: Priest Pavel Florensky — Theologian, Philosopher and Scientist”, citing Pospielovksy
