25 APRIL 1925, Page 28

The Boswell Printing and Publishing Co. send us The Assault

of Heaven, a book compiled by M. A. A. Valentinov to illustrate the fierce war against religion. carried on by the Soviet Government. He proves convincingly that the aboli- tion of Christianity is one of the political aims of Bolshevism. "-The transition," says one of the Communists, " must be direct from Orthodoxy to atheism. . . . It would be bad if faith, having discarded some of its equipment, should gain a less vulnerable position." Professor Peter Struve well describes the Soviet fanaticism as ".inquisition without faith,, religious indifference without toleration."