History of Soviet Atheism. Antireligious campaign in the USSR Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev (part 1)
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- For 70 years the Soviet government sought to remove religion from Soviet society. They wanted to build a world without religion. But what strategies were used and did they really work? No matter how hard they tried, no matter how many resources they invested, Soviet Communism never managed to overcome religion or produce an atheist society. What went wrong? What were the Soviet atheists had to realize when confronted with real faith, and how did the strategy of the Communist Party and its attitude towards religion and atheism change? We will go through several periods, first, we will talk about administrative restrictions under Lenin; then political repression under Stalin; about how his attitude changed during the war; Scientific atheism and enlightenment under Khrushchev; attempts to win the hearts of the Soviet people through secular rituals and positive atheism under Brezhnev; and finally about the death of the atheistic project and the revival of religion under Gorbachev. The review is based on a book by historian Victoria Smolkin: A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism by Princeton University Press.
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Smolkin, Victoria. 2018. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism. Princeton University Press.
Blankholm, Joseph. 2020. Remembering Marx’s Secularism. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 88:1 (March 2020): 35-57.
Luehrmann, Sonja. 2011. Secularism: Soviet Style. Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic. Indiana UP.
Froese, Paul. 2008. The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experimentation in Secularization. UC Press.
Roland Elliott Brown. 2019. Godless Utopia: Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda.
Peris, Daniel. 1998. Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless. Cornell University Press.
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The key: The Soviet officials learned the lesson of Henry 8: it is more feasible to take over control the church organization and fill it with officials loyal to the regime than to try to abolish the religious institutions. Remember Henry did not try to eliminate Christianity: He just took over control of the Catholic Church in England and filled it with his supporters. Stalin and his successors did the same thing: installing Communists in Orthodox church positions in Russia. Putin may well be an atheist but is smart enough to attend Orthodox church services to keep political support of believers.
The youtube channel Lady Izdihar does some pretty good videos on Islam and the Soviet Union; learned some very interesting things.
Excellent video! I've done a lot research into the feld of religious repession in the USSR. It's something I plan to be writing on as I go through academia!
Great video, Comrade! Keep up the good work, your channel will grow big soon!
Hi what is the current Atheists and Agnostics population in Russia and is it growing or decreasing. Any reliable information out there.
Christianity will always be the best religoin no one can canceled
Very well done. Thank you.
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Amazing video - hope your channel grows!
Thanks, very interesting.
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?" - F. Nietzche
This video is great, Spaceeba! I'd like to ask a question. Do you know if I can find biographies/ autobiographies of very religious people during the Soviet Union?
Besides rocketry, atheism was one of my favorite things about the SU.
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Я никогда не слышал, чтобы кого-то исключили из университета по религиозным мотивам.
This video shows how flexible was the government in SSSR: they tried to find diffrent ways of influencing people. Not like today in Canada, for exmple, almost dictatorial way to convince us to believe their agenda.
I am a religious Communist and I believe in Christianity.
You could go more in depth into the persecution of the believers, the underground church and saints. And if you're kind you could denounce Stalin as a saint and sergeinism pls.