USSR Anti-Religious Campaign (1928-1941) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A new phase of the anti-religious persecution in the Soviet Union began in 1929 with the drafting of new legislation that severely prohibited religious activities and called for a heightened attack on religion in order to further disseminate atheism. This had been preceded in 1928 at the fifteenth party congress, where Stalin criticized the party for failure to produce more active and persuasive antireligious propaganda. This new phase coincided with the beginning of the forced mass collectivization of agriculture and the destruction of all private enterprise.