The Rise of Antireligious Propaganda in Soviet Russia and the USSR: the Center and the Region
The Rise of Antireligious Propaganda in Soviet Russia and the USSR: the Center and the Region

Summary/Abstract: The main measures of anti religious propaganda, its legislative and theoretical foundations as those of the new line of ideological work are analyzed in the paper, based on thesystemic, problematic and chronological, information approaches and materials of the federal andregional archives of the Russian Federation. The authors single out distinctive features ofantireligious campaigning both at the general state level and in the European North of Russia in1918–1924 (up to 1925, when the "League of the Godless" was founded). Close attention is paidto the specific way antireligious opinions were presented in the regional press, to the forms, methodsand results of holding local "komsomol Christmas" and "komsomol Easter", as well as toevaluating the causes and forms of antireligious activity in Soviet Russia and the USSR in worksof the Russian and foreign researchers.

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