TY - JOUR
TI - The Campaign of Confiscation of Saints’ Relics as an Element of Communist Anti-religious Politics
AU - Pawełczyk-Dura, Kamila
TI - The Campaign of Confiscation of Saints’ Relics as an Element of Communist Anti-religious Politics
AB - 
	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 - Volume 45, Issue 3
PY - 2012
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 227
EP - 235
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.12.018.0971
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/kampania-otwierania-swietych-relikwii-jako-element-antycerkiewnej-polityki-wladz-komunistycznych
KW - The Russian Orthodox Church
KW - relics
KW - communism
KW - anti-religious campaign