KARL MARX’S THOUGHT INTERPRETED BY VLADIMIR LENIN
AS A MOTIVATING FACTOR FOR SOVIET ANTI-RELIGIOUS LEGISLATION
AFTER THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION Cover Image

MYŚL KAROLA MARKSA W INTERPRETACJI WŁODZIMIERZA LENINA JAKO CZYNNIK MOTYWUJĄCY ANTYRELIGIJNE USTAWODAWSTWO SOWIECKIE PO REWOLUCJI PAŹDZIERNIKOWEJ
KARL MARX’S THOUGHT INTERPRETED BY VLADIMIR LENIN AS A MOTIVATING FACTOR FOR SOVIET ANTI-RELIGIOUS LEGISLATION AFTER THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION

Author(s): Kacper Cieślik
Subject(s): Politics and religion, Politics and society, History of Communism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Marxism; Marxism-Leninism; anti-religious legislation;

Summary/Abstract: The thought of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin were legal and social in the socialist states.In the text, author discusses the assumptions propagated by the said authors , focusing on the understanding of relationship between state and religion and religious freedom. The proponentof state atheism in the post-revolutionary reality was Karl Marx. Seizing power in Russia, after 1918the Bolsheviks decided to incorporate Marxian thought into the legislation of the still-forming Sovietstate. In the article author emphasises the considerable degree to which the founders of the Sovietstate were inspired by the thought of Karl Marx and, on the basis of this ideological background,presents the legal as well as actual actions that led to the creation of an atheist state and a statethat fought against all manifestations of state religiosity.

  • Issue Year: 44/2024
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 29-43
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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