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- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union abstract "When the Soviet Union was established by the Bolsheviks in 1922, it was the constitutional organisation which took over from the Russian Empire. At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the Russian Orthodox Church was deeply integrated into the autocratic state enjoying official status. This was a significant factor that contributed to the Bolshevik attitude to religion and the steps they took to control it. Thus the USSR became the first state to have, as an ideological objective, the elimination of religion and its replacement with universal atheism. The communist regime confiscated religious property, ridiculed religion, harassed believers, and propagated atheism in schools. The confiscation of religious assets was often based on accusations of illegal accumulation of wealth.The vast majority of people in the Russian empire were, at the time of the revolution, religious believers, whereas the communists aimed to break the power of all religious institutions and eventually replace religious belief with atheism. "Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing. The main religions of pre-revolutionary Russia persisted throughout the entire Soviet period, but they were only tolerated within certain limits. Generally, this meant that believers were free to worship in private and in their respective religious buildings (churches, mosques, etc.), but public displays of religion outside of such designated areas were prohibited. In addition, religious institutions were not allowed to express their views in any type of mass media, and many religious buildings were demolished or used for other purposes.[citation needed]State atheism in the Soviet Union was known as gosateizm, and was based on the ideology of Marxism–Leninism. As the founder of the Soviet state, V. I. Lenin, put it:Religion is the opium of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about religion. All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class.Marxist–Leninist atheism has consistently advocated the control, suppression, and elimination of religion. Within about a year of the revolution, the state expropriated all church property, including the churches themselves, and in the period from 1922 to 1926, 28 Russian Orthodox bishops and more than 1,200 priests were killed. Many more were persecuted.Christians belonged to various churches: Orthodox (which had the largest number of followers), Catholic, and Baptist and various other Protestant denominations. The majority of the Muslims in the Soviet Union were Sunni. Judaism also had many followers. Other religions, practiced by a small number of believers, included Buddhism and Shamanism.".
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- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union date "November 2011".
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- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union subject Category:Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union.
- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union subject Category:Soviet_culture.
- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union comment "When the Soviet Union was established by the Bolsheviks in 1922, it was the constitutional organisation which took over from the Russian Empire. At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the Russian Orthodox Church was deeply integrated into the autocratic state enjoying official status. This was a significant factor that contributed to the Bolshevik attitude to religion and the steps they took to control it.".
- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union label "Religion in the Soviet Union".
- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union label "Religione in Unione Sovietica".
- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union label "Religions en Union soviétique".
- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union label "Religião na União Soviética".
- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union label "Religión en la Unión Soviética".
- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union label "Религия в СССР".
- Religion_in_the_Soviet_Union label "الدين في الاتحاد السوفيتي".
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