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The USSR anti-religious campaign of 1928–1941 was a new phase of anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union following the anti-religious campaign of 1921–1928. The campaign began in 1929, with the drafting of new legislation that severely prohibited religious activities and called for an education process on religion in order to further ...
The anti-religious propaganda rarely showed differentiation in methodology despite the debate that went on between different members of the Soviet hierarchy. Even 'sophisticated' theoretical and methodological journals often published direct hate propaganda against religious believers.
The 21st Congress brought in a new, radical programme of anti-religious propaganda that would stay in place for the next twenty-five years. [13]A new anti-religious periodical appeared in 1959 called Science and Religion (Nauka i Religiia), which followed in the tradition of Bezbozhnik in aggressiveness and vulgarity, but was much less vicious.
The Soviet regime had an ostensible commitment to the complete annihilation of religious institutions and ideas. [11] Communist ideology could not coexist with the continued influence of religion even as an independent institutional entity, so "Lenin demanded that communist propaganda must employ militancy and irreconcilability towards all forms of idealism and religion", and that was called ...
The anti-religious propaganda tried to depict a connection between religious dissent and foreign intelligence services as well as with anti-communist Russian émigré organizations such as NTS. Caches of religious literature confiscated by Soviet customs officials reportedly were subversive and were alleged to be widely accepted among believers.
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Religion in the Soviet Union. New York: St. Martin's Press. OCLC 831005445. Lane, Christel (1978). Christian Religion in the Soviet Union: A Sociological Study. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-87395-327-6. Luukkanen, Arto (1994). The Party of Unbelief: The Religious Policy of the Bolshevik Party, 1917-1929. Studia Historica.
In 1929, all forms of religious education were banned as religious propaganda, and the right to anti-religious propaganda was explicitly affirmed, whereupon the League of the Godless became the League of the Militant Godless. [155] A "Godless Five-Year Plan" was proclaimed, purportedly at the instigation of the masses. [156]