Change under Stalin and Lenin
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- Change under Stalin and Lenin
- Church under Lenin
- Attacked the powers of the church
- Lands of the church seized
- 1918, decree on Separation of Church and State
- Secularized deaths, births and schools No religion
- Prosecuted priests, they weren't allowed to vote or have ration cards
- 1927, the head of Church agrees to stay out of politics in return for recognition
- 1921, Union of Militant Godliness established
- Prosecuted priests, they weren't allowed to vote or have ration cards
- Ceremonies were Bolshevised, Christenings were Octobered
- Religion was seen as the opium of the people and backwards
- Religion was seen as linked with the Tsar
- Knowledge, technology, science and electricity would replace power of God
- Attacked the powers of the church
- Church under Stalin
- Direct attack on religion, schools closed down. Churches destroyed
- Priests prosecuted and sent to the Gulag
- Stalin Constitution criminalized religious propaganda but allowed priests to vote
- By 1930 80% of Churches had closed down
- 1/40 Churches still functioning
- Only 5665 /60,000 priests still active, 12 / 168 priests free
- Priests prosecuted and sent to the Gulag
- Holy Sunday abolished in from 1929-1940
- Part of cultural revolution, class warfare attack on the Bourgeoisie
- Part of the Great Terror, 1935/36
- Direct attack on religion, schools closed down. Churches destroyed
- Islam under Stalin
- Property, land, school and Mosques seized
- Veils forbidden
- Sharia courts abolished, priests imprisoned or executed
- Frequency of fasts, feasts and prayers reduced
- This caused a split in the Islamic Church, new Mosque prop Soviet
- Attacks on new Muslims by traditionalists
- By 1941, 25,000 Mosques were closed and converted into public buildings
- Property, land, school and Mosques seized
- Other religion attacked by Stalin
- Jewish schools and synagogues were closed down
- Buddhist institutions attacked
- Armenian and Georgian Churches attacked
- Interesting as Stalin was Georgian, maybe he wanted to erase his past?
- Church under Lenin
- Impact on Stalin on religion
- Power of the Churches broken
- Faith remained strong
- Religious beliefs strengthened
- In the 1937 census, 1/2 million Soviets still classed themselves as religious
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