Lenin and Religion 2

Question 1

1. What was established as a ‘reformed version’ of the old Orthodox Church?
   - Who had power?
2. What did the Living Church organise to introduce a new decentralised structure?
   - When did they organise this?
3. Who was the leader of the Living Church?
   - What was he not prepared to do?
4. What the C.C. stop within the Church in 1925?
   - Why?
5. Did the Church split diminish church growth? (Yes or No).

Answer 1

1. The Living Church.
   - Ordinary people.
2. A National Congress.
   - April 1923.
3. Archbishop Vedenskii.
   - Support the Communists.
4. Public Debates.
   - Counterproductive.
5. No.

Question 2

1. Why did the Communists object to Islam? (2)
2. What did the Communists close?
   - What did they discourage?
   - What did they attack?
   - What did they open?
3. They launched a campaign against women wearing what?

Answer 2

1. Claimed Islam encouraged ‘crimes based on custom’ (infringing women’s rights).
   Islam had loyalty of many in Caucasus and Central Asia, and they wanted to destroy it to extend their own power.
2. Mosques.
   - Pilgrimages.
   - Islamic Shrines.
   - Anti-Islamic Museums.
3. The Chador.