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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 ...
"Monks - the bloody enemies of the working people" (Banner on the Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Cave Monastery, 1930s.). 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.
A Long Walk To Church: A Contemporary History Of Russian Orthodoxy. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-2276-6. Kolarz, Walter (1966). 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.
The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including Kazakhstan, [6] [7] [8] Northern Caucasus, Kuban Region, Volga Region, the South Urals, and West Siberia.
While the Moscow government recognized the famine in Russia, Soviet authorities paid little attention to the 1921–1923 famine in Ukraine. Moreover, Vladimir Lenin ordered to move trains full of grain from Ukraine to the Volga region, Moscow , and Petrograd , to combat starvation there; 1,127 trains were sent between fall 1921 and August 1922.
The "harsh persecution short of total annihilation of the clergy, monks, and nuns and other people associated with the Church" [3] continued well into the 1930s. In addition to executing and exiling many clerics, monks and laymen, the confiscation of Church implements "for victims of famine" and the closing of churches were common. [4]
Irreligion was the official state policy during the Soviet Union and was rigorously enforced. [3] This led to the persecution of Christians in the country. [4] Since the collapse of Communism, Russia has seen an upsurge of religion. [5]
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 ...