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To this effect, anti-religious activities that were too insulting to religious feelings could be questioned and criticized in the belief that they would harden religious convictions. Lenin's statement 'On the Significance of Militant Materialism', was worded in such a fashion that both sides of the debate would use it to support their arguments.
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 ...
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 ...
Lenin's decree on the separation of church and state on January 23, 1918 (Julian calendar) deprived the formerly official church of its status of legal person, [35] the right to own property [27] or to teach religion in both state and private schools [36] [37] or to any group of minors.
A new volume of anti-religious legislation was introduced in 1929 due to the failure of the anti-religious campaign in the previous decade and the successful resistance that the church was able to fight against the atheistic propaganda. The legislation would form part of the basis for the harsh persecution that would be carried out in the 1930s.
Monument to clergy and laity killed during the Soviet anti-religious campaign. Shuya, the square in front of the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ. The 1922 confiscation of church property in Russia was begun by the Bolshevik government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic allegedly to combat the Russian famine of 1921–1922.
In office 6 July 1923 – 21 January 1924 ... the government's anti-religious policies also harmed Catholic and Protestant churches, Jewish synagogues, and Islamic ...
The government's anti-religious campaign was re-intensified, [279] with increased funding given to the League of Militant Atheists. [271] Priests, imams, and Buddhist monks faced persecution. [267] Religious buildings were demolished, most notably Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, destroyed in 1931 to make way for the Palace of the ...