Religious suppression in Soviet Russia
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CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE
Religious suppression
- Church provided an alternative ideology to that of Marxism
- Rights of the individual contrasted with the collective mentality of Socialist
- Orthodox church had been tied closely with Tsarism
- There was to be no 'opium of the masses' other than communism
- Influence of Islam
- Initially there were few attempts made to attack Islam
- Mid-1920s -gov felt comfortable enough to attack Islamic institutions
- closed down mosques
- 1927- campaign against the veiling of women
- Ramadan fasting was condemned
- Polygamy was prohibited
- resulted in a series of revolts in 1928
- Many muslims retained Islamic customs in private while others joined underground brotherhoods.
- Lenin
- 1918 Decree on the Freedom of Conscience
- Separated orthodox church from the state
- Large number of churches destroyed
- Valuable objects were seized to help pay for food supplies during civil war
- Priests were deprived of the vote, denied rations and were victims of the…
- 1918 Decree on the Freedom of Conscience
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