%0 Book
%A Christopher Selbach
%D 2003
%C München, Germany
%I GRIN Verlag
%@ 9783638213219
%T The Soviet debate on religion in the 1920s. Principal positions
%R 10.3239/9783638213219
%U https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/16467
%X The Soviet debate of the 1920s surrounding religion was mainly based on the Marxist dogma with its materialist notion of religion, but it nevertheless involved a great diversity of ideas. The discussion shows a tendency to increasingly acknowledge the complexity of religion, thereby stressing the need for harsher measures. Under Stalin's totalitarianism, however, the controversial philosophical dicussion was bound to come to an end: it was replaced by another straightforward attempt to eliminate religion physically. The essay takes a close look at the evolution of a debate that shaped the religious policies of the Soviet Union.
%K Bolsheviks, Religion, Bolschewisten, Russland, Soviet Union, Sowjetunion, Religionspolitik, religious policy, Russia
%G English