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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Bibliography:
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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@religiologEng Год назад

Thank you for your likes and comments! Link to part 2 of this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hAvzsWx2S6g.html part 3 - Religion under Gorbachev. Church & State in the USSR and Putin’s Russia - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nVOkKpcLcb4.html Please, support Religiolog through a one-time donation: www.paypal.com/paypalme/religiolog Or become my Patron: www.patreon.com/4religiolog

@hossboss4551 Год назад

Great video, Comrade! Keep up the good work, your channel will grow big soon!

@religiologEng Год назад

thank you for the inspiration! I hope you've pressed the bell button. :)

@linkhankinss Год назад

Here from GMS!

@religiologEng Год назад

welcome! Happy to see you here!

@robertfreid2879 Год назад

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!

@religiologEng Год назад

wow, thank you for sharing. I'm glad you found my channel. The second part is coming in a couple of days. I hope you'll like it

@wheresmyeyebrow1608 Год назад

Amazing video - hope your channel grows!

@religiologEng Год назад

Thanks for the encouragement!

@hazchemel Год назад

Thanks, very interesting. Condolences also. It is a dreary exercise to listen to the thoughts of atheists on God, and on religion.

@religiologEng Год назад

thanks!

@gregorybufkin890 Год назад

Very well done. Thank you.

@religiolog Год назад

Thank you, Gregory!

@religiologEng Год назад

Glad you liked it!

@TheHistoryofThings Год назад

"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 Great video, well put together! 👏

@religiologEng Год назад

Thank you for the encouragement. Please wait for the next part, it's going to be even more interesting.

@slawekwojtowicz Год назад

God is alive 🤣

@RajeshKumar-wv5fp Год назад

@@slawekwojtowicz there is no god. Remain atheist

@slawekwojtowicz Год назад

@@RajeshKumar-wv5fp lol. There are gazzulions of gods. You are one of them, my poor confused and lost bro. I serve the God of Love that Jesus served. The most powerful God of all. If you were not lazy, you would have discovered God by now.

@slawekwojtowicz Год назад

@@RajeshKumar-wv5fp you are hilarious. You sound just like other religionists. All depended on faith. Why don’t you do some work and experience God directly? 🤔

@shirazkhan817 Год назад

Hi what is the current Atheists and Agnostics population in Russia and is it growing or decreasing. Any reliable information out there.

@religiologEng Год назад

please watch part 3 of this movie, I provide statistics there: part 3 - Religion under Gorbachev. Church & State in the USSR and Putin’s Russia - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nVOkKpcLcb4.html

@shirazkhan817 Год назад

@@religiologEng Thanks for your information. I am a former Muslim and now I am a Atheist.

@religiologEng Год назад

@@shirazkhan817 you are welcome!

@Taymanafghan 16 дней назад

@@shirazkhan817come back to Islam brother

@dovrob Год назад

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? I'm very curious to see what the era was like from their perspective. And I could use all the help I can get. P.s. I found a great book about an Orthodox Jew by Zilber titled To Remain A Jew. However I'd like to hear the perspectives of other religious people if possible.

@religiologEng Год назад

Hi, thanks for the inspiration. There might be such sources but probably not in English. You may read Soljenitsin Archipelag GULAG or some works of the orthodox priest Alexander Meni. Also you may check a book by Froese "Plot to Kill God", he takes it more from the phenomenological approach.

@dovrob Год назад

@@religiologEng Spaceeba bolshoi!

@arlosmith2784 Год назад

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.

@religiologEng Год назад

Agree with you. Thank you for the detailed comment.

@robertfreid2879 Год назад

To a certain extent, well really only during WWII when the regime needed to rally believers against the German invaders in June 1941. After the war, religion faced state repression into the 1980s.

@theunknowncommenter725 Год назад

Putin is NOT an atheist. He is a devout Orthodox Christian.

@Johnnycdrums Год назад

Vladimir Putin is no Atheist. He secretly attended church with his mother, regularly.

@arlosmith2784 Год назад

@@Johnnycdrums Given his KGB background I am sure the Putin appearances in church are like those of GOP Congressmen who regularly attend church while regularly practicing marital infidelity.

@DEADIKATED Год назад

Good Video I subbed

@religiologEng Год назад

thank you! deeply appreciate it.

@noheroespublishing1907 Год назад

The youtube channel Lady Izdihar does some pretty good videos on Islam and the Soviet Union; learned some very interesting things.

@romazone101 Год назад

Besides rocketry, atheism was one of my favorite things about the SU. Oh well all good things must come to an end. Great video.

@religiologEng Год назад

Thank you Roma! I hope you'll check out other 2 part of this video, they are even more interesting. Also make sure to check out my new video about "Secular Society"

@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 2 месяца назад

the SU was evil

@ludmilaivanova1603 5 месяцев назад

Я никогда не слышал, чтобы кого-то исключили из университета по религиозным мотивам.

@ludmilaivanova1603 5 месяцев назад

@4:18 yes, that was a horrible time in our history when everything collapsed and people were so confused and derailed that many could not cope with it and needed help. It has nothing to do with the religion, people needed psichological help. It was exactly as in tsarist Russia-hardship lead people to religion to hope at least for the another world. Today they noticed that much less people go to church compared to the previous years. So the role of the church is to pacify those in trouble. But today there are psichologosts to help. ANd even today there ar 2-3% of population are religious. In all my 45 years in SSSR I did not meet anyone who would be religious. Many of us were babtised by our parents but that was it.

@ludmilaivanova1603 5 месяцев назад

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.

@elliotbacklund8529 Месяц назад

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.

@religiologEng Месяц назад

thank you for the comment! there are two more parts to this video

@hguy438 8 месяцев назад

I am a religious Communist and I believe in Christianity.

@religiologEng 8 месяцев назад

thanks for sharing. It's good to know that such people exist

@kingkoi6542 2 месяца назад

Sounds like an oxymoron...

@ludmilaivanova1603 5 месяцев назад

@20:39 True. The quality of atheism propaganda waas really very bad. May be the lecturers did not take that as a serious subject and did not do a good job, I can attest to this. I recall one lecture in all my life and that was rediculous.

@fortunatomartino9797 Год назад

Militant atheism Scientific atheism Positive or spreading atheism

@religiologEng Год назад

sorry, what is the point of this comment?

@michaelabbott9080 2 месяца назад

You seem to gloss over the part played by the church in the repression of the Russian people prior to the revolution.The Ortodox church provided a bastion of support for the despotic Czar and for serfdom. It said that the Czar was Gods chosen ruler and it was the duty of all Russians to show the Czar absolute obedience,at the risk of ex communication...to obey the Czar as you obey God...Had the church sided with,or even shown concern for the conditions of the people in the 50yrs leading up to the revolution,the post revolution outcome may well have been different for them...

@religiologEng 2 месяца назад

yes, thanks for the comment