Religion

Question 1

When were all monastries closed by?

Answer 1

End of 1918

Question 2

How many bishops and priests were killed in 1923?

Answer 2

28 bishops and 1000 priests

Question 3

Mid-1920s peasant survey, how many still active Christians?

Answer 3

55%

Question 4

Stalin Purge- how many Bishops still at liberty?

Answer 4

12/163

Question 5

How many churches were closed under Khrushchev?

Answer 5

10,000

Question 6

What else did Khrushchev do to denounce religion?

Answer 6

Refused believers across holy sites and used Soviet space programme (Yuri Gargarin and Valentina Tereshkova)

Question 7

Brez- what were church expected to do?

Answer 7

Help the state e.g help poor

Question 8

What shows Brezhnev still used some supressive measures?

Answer 8

Christian Committee for the Defence of Believer’s Rights 5 yr imprisonment for leader 1976

Question 9

What was done to attack Islam

Answer 9

Campaign against veiling of women 1927, ramadam and polygamy banned.

Question 10

What were the limits to supressing Islam?

Answer 10

Tariqat underground brotherhood

Question 11

Decrees under Lenin

Answer 11

1917 Decree on Land

1918 Decree on Freedom of Conscience- took away authority and publications outlawed

Question 12

How did Brez monitor religious services and clergy?

Answer 12

Council of Religious Affairs