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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 USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–1928) was a campaign of anti-religious persecution against churches and Christian believers by the Soviet government following the initial anti-religious campaign during the Russian Civil War.
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 ...
Religion in the Soviet Union. New York: St. Martin's Press. Lane, Christel (1978). Christian Religion in the Soviet Union: A Sociological Study. New York: University of New York. Pospielovsky, Dimitry V. (1987). A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory, and Practice, and the Believer. Vol. 1: "A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Anti ...
The state's efforts to eradicate religion in the Soviet Union, however, varied over the years with respect to particular religions and were affected by higher state interests. In 1923, a New York Times correspondent saw Christians observing Easter peacefully in Moscow despite violent anti-religious actions in previous years. [34]
Religious Policy in the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-41643-6. Pospielovsky, Dimitry V. (1987). A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Antireligious Policies: Volume 1 of A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory and Practice, and the Believer. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-43440-6.
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After the October Revolution, there was a movement within the Soviet Union to unite all of the people of the world under communist rule known as world communism.Communism as interpreted by Vladimir Lenin and his successors in the Soviet government included the abolition of religion and to this effect the Soviet government launched a long-running unofficial campaign to eliminate religion from ...