TY - JOUR TI - Kampania otwierania świętych relikwii jako element antycerkiewnej polityki władz komunistycznych AU - Pawełczyk-Dura, Kamila TI - Kampania otwierania świętych relikwii jako element antycerkiewnej polityki władz komunistycznych AB - The Campaign of Confiscation of Saints’ Relics as an Element of Communist Anti-religious Politics The elimination of religion was a fundamental ideological goal of the communist state. According to Marxist theory, religion was a product of material conditions. Working from this premise, militant atheism initially considered that religion would disappear on its own through the coming of the new society system. After the revolution the Bolsheviks started a massive persecution. When it became clear that religion was not dying out on its own, the USSR began general antireligious campaigns. One of the lesser known campaigns was confiscation of saints’ relics, carefully preserved for the purposes of veneration or as a touchable or tangible memorial. VL - 2012 IS - Tom 45, Numer 3 PY - 2012 SN - 0137-2432 C1 - 2084-4077 SP - 227 EP - 235 DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.12.018.0971 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-religiologica/artykul/kampania-otwierania-swietych-relikwii-jako-element-antycerkiewnej-polityki-wladz-komunistycznych KW - Rosyjska Cerkiew Prawosławna KW - relikwie KW - komunizm KW - kampanie antycerkiewne ' The Russian Orthodox Church KW - relics KW - communism KW - anti-religious campaign