[Scientific Atheism] Pravda o "Chudesnykh" Istseleniiakh [The Truth About the "Wondrous" Healings]

Moscow: Meditsina, 1968. First edition; 5 x 8; pp. 3-46, [2] including text to last page; pictorial wraps; faint crease to upper margin, else very minor wear; illustrated with 4 full-page caricatures; near fine.A veiled but powerful anti-religious propaganda pamphlet and a splendid example of the Scientific Atheism movement in the Soviet Union. It describes the progress of science in general and the therapeutic use of hypnosis in particular while simultaneously trashing the religious myths of divine healing and supernatural intervention. The caricatures mock priests and healers and the people who believe in them.Three institutional holdings, this the only copy in the trade.