Religion

Question 1

Lenin: What did Marx say

Answer 1

religion was the opium of the masses

Question 2

Lenin: Decrees introduce and years

Answer 2

1917: decree on land
1918: decree on freedom of conscience

Question 3

Lenin: how many bishops killed

Answer 3

28 bishops

Question 4

Lenin: how many priests killed

Answer 4

1000

Question 5

Lenin: during the Red Terror what happened to priests

Answer 5

• not vote, not received food from grain req

Question 6

Lenin: what was the living church and why wasn’t successful

Answer 6

• church made by ordinary people

- not successful: leader not believed in communism

Question 7

Stalin: what happened during collectivisation to priests

Answer 7

• seen as KULAKS: sent to gulags

Question 8

Stalin: how many bishops in liberty

Answer 8

12/63

Question 9

Stalin: church villages opened

Answer 9

4/5

Question 10

Stalin: what happened during WW2

Answer 10

Stalin made an alliance w/ WW2 - boosted patriotism and helped families

Question 11

Stalin: what did Mao do after WW2: opened charged, stopped anti- religious group

Answer 11

opened closed churches , stopped anti- religious group

Question 12

Stalin: what was the militant godless

Answer 12

took peasants on airplane - show heaven didn’t exist

Question 13

Stalin: how many active christians

Answer 13

55%

Question 14

Stalin: what groups disappeared

Answer 14

Sufi groups

Question 15

KR: position towards religion

Answer 15

Against: Anti religious campaign

Question 16

KR: how many churches closed down

Answer 16

10,000

Question 17

KR: why encouraged men to take role in religion

Answer 17

women were involved in religion and normally belonged to Orthodox Church

Question 18

KR: decrease in number of churches

Answer 18

8000- 4000

Question 19

BR: opinion of religion

Answer 19

x against any religion

Question 20

BR: institute created in what year

Answer 20

Institute for Atheism: 1968

Question 21

BR: view of Islam

Answer 21

• not giants it - had socialist values