Soviet anti-religious campaigns

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:conductedBy	gptkb:Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
gptkbp:endDate	1991
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Soviet anti-religious campaigns
gptkbp:ideology	state atheism
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:notableEvent	destruction of churches League of Militant Atheists activities anti-religious education in schools arrests of religious leaders
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Khrushchev_Thaw gptkb:Brezhnev_era 1920s 1930s
gptkbp:opposedBy	gptkb:religious_organization international human rights organizations
gptkbp:policy	separation of church and state confiscation of church property persecution of clergy closure of religious institutions anti-religious propaganda promotion of scientific atheism
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Soviet_Union gptkb:Marxism–Leninism atheism persecution Communism
gptkbp:resultedIn	decline in religious practice emigration of religious minorities underground religious activity
gptkbp:startDate	1917
gptkbp:target	gptkb:Buddhism gptkb:Islam gptkb:Judaism gptkb:Protestantism gptkb:Russian_Orthodox_Church Catholic Church
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Eastern_Orthodoxy_(persecuted) gptkb:St._Petersburg_Lutheran_churches gptkb:Russian_Buddhism gptkb:Central_Asian_Muslims
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7