Religon

Question 1

Why was it imporant for the Bolsheviks to supress religon?

Answer 1

Religon was followed by many people and can change ideologies and can build up revolutions against communism, lenin wanted people to follow his ideas so if they were in the Bible than people would follow them

Question 2

Why did lenin criticise the Russian orthoodox church?

Answer 2

-religon stood for values that sometimes opposed communist ideas
- Religous groups were organised that were independant of the communist Goverment and therefor could organise oppositon of the Goverment

Question 3

What happened 1918 of November of terror with the church?

Answer 3

• November 1917 archpriest Ivan Kuchurov was murderd outside Petrograd
• january 1918 Metropoliticain Vladimir was tortured and shot in Kiev
• orthodox priests in Moscow mascarraded following a church decree excommunicating the Bolsheviks
• Novemeber 1918 politburoo issued secret order to cheka sanctination the mass execution of priests
• muslims encouraged to join communist party since communists were less antagonisitic towards islam as there was no link with tsarism

Question 4

What was the living church?

Answer 4

Was established in April 1921, and used against the orthodox church introducting a new decentralised structure
- vendenskili was the new leader of the living church

Question 5

What did they do about islam?

Answer 5

islamic organissation has loyalty from many people and therefor wanted to destroy the religon (claming that islam encouraged ‘crimes based on custom’) :
- closed mosques, turning them into sport clubs
- discouaged pilgrimages
- atacked islamic shrines
- started campagins against women wearing chador, traditional form of dress which included veils
- opened anti-islamic museums

Question 6

What was the dominant organised religon in 1917

Answer 6

Russia orthodox

Question 7

What was the name given to the new church to set up challange the dominant religon of Russia?

Answer 7

living church

Question 8

What did Marx claim about religion?

Answer 8

the ‘opium of the masses’

Question 9

What was the legal reforms about religion?

Answer 9

-october 1917 decree on land gave peasants right to seize land belonging to church
-january 1918 churches became nationalised and religious education was banned in schools