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- The communist government targeted religions based on state interests, and while most organized religions were never outlawed, religious property was confiscated, believers were harassed, and religion was ridiculed while atheism was propagated in schools.
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Dec 16, 2013 · Religious practices were deeply interwoven with the way of life of the peasantry, and the destruction of religion would facilitate the destruction of that whole way of life. The constitution was amended to include not only freedom of religious belief but also the freedom to propagate atheism.
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By regulating the market, the communist regimes sought to...
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By regulating the market, the communist regimes sought to control the supply of religion. Ultimately, however, the success of the communist project depended on eliminating people's demand for religion. This article examines religion under communism, focusing on state regulation, scientific atheism, and the dynamics of supply and demand.
- Joseph Stalin Grew Up with Religion
- The 'Godless Five-Year Plan'
- Churches, Synagogues, Mosques Made Into 'Museums of Atheism'
- Churches Reopen During World War II
- Campaigns Fail to Convert Majority to Atheism
On a personal level, Stalin was well-acquainted with the church. As a young man in his native Georgia, he had been first expelled from one seminary and then forced to leave another, after he was arrested for possessing illegal literature. As the young seminarian grew increasingly disillusioned with religion, “the all-encompassing nature of Marxism,...
The “Godless Five-Year Plan,” launched in 1928, gave local cells of the anti-religious organization, League of Militant Atheists, new tools to disestablish religion. Churches were closed and stripped of their property, as well as any educational or welfare activities that went beyond simple liturgy. Leaders of the church were imprisoned and sometim...
At the same time, the sacked churches, synagogues and mosques were transformed into anti-religious “museums of atheism,” where dioramas of clerical cruelty sat alongside crisp explanations of scientific phenomena. Icons and relics, meanwhile, were stripped of their mystique and treated as ordinary objects. The general public didn’t seem to have bee...
By 1939, barely 200 churches remained open, out of about 46,000 before the Russian Revolution. Clergy and laymen had been executed or placed in labor camps, while only four bishops remained “at liberty.” The Orthodox church was all but vanquished, explains Madsen—until World War II. After Naziinvaders reopened churches in Ukraine to encourage sympa...
Even as Stalin’s measures succeeded in sucking the center out of the Russian Orthodox church, they had minimal impact on people’s actual faith. As late as 1937, a survey of the Soviet population found that 57 percent self-identified as a “religious believer.” Stalin’s central belief—that every rational person would, as Miner puts it, “naturally dis...
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The communist government targeted religions based on state interests, and while most organized religions were never outlawed, religious property was confiscated, believers were harassed, and religion was ridiculed while atheism was propagated in schools. [2]
Religion and communism are incompatible, both theoretically and practically. Every communist must regard social phenomena (the relationships between human beings, revolutions, wars, etc.) as processes which occur in accordance with definite laws.
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Sep 28, 2017 · Communism and Religion By Stephen A. Smith Edited by Juliane Fürst , University of Bristol , Silvio Pons , Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata' , Mark Selden , Cornell University, New York
The starting point for many a discussion of Communism and religion is the statement by Karl Marx (surely one of his most frequently quoted passages) that religion "is the opium of the people." The context in which this particular passage. occurs, however, is less sarcastic:
