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- The Bolsheviks viewed all organised religion as an instrument used by the ruling classes to deceive the masses into accepting their inferiority without complaint.
- It had always been linked to Tsarist regimes.
- The Tsar had been the head of the Church.
- In the Bolshevik’s view the elimination of religious belief would liberate the people from damaging superstitions.
- The Bolsheviks believed that the Russian Orthodox Church’s close links with the Tsarist regime was a threat.
- It was seen as a counter-revolutionary institution in Russia by the Bolshevik Party.
- The Church provided an alternative ideology to that of Marxism/Bolshevism.
- It was an important element in national identity and needed to be destroyed.
- They needed to get rid of the ‘opium of the masses’.
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