Icons of Opium, edited by Dr. Doan Dani, expands on the 2025 Kalo Gallery exhibition by documenting how Albania’s communist regime used state-produced media to demonize religion and promote atheism as a pillar of socialist identity. The volume combines archival propaganda images with interdisciplinary essays that explore the role of visual culture in ideological repression, cultural erasure, and the shaping of collective memory, while also examining the enduring effects of this legacy in post-communist Albania.