Penindasan umat Kristen di Uni Soviet

Sepanjang sejarah Uni Soviet (1922–1991), terdapat periode di mana pemerintah Soviet menekan dan menindas berbagai bentuk Kekristenan dalam tingkat yang berbeda-beda tergantung pada kepentingan negara. Kebijakan Marxisme-Leninisme Soviet secara konsisten menganjurkan kontrol, penindasan, dan akhirnya, penghapusan keyakinan agama, dan secara aktif mendorong ateisme di Uni Soviet. Namun, kebanyakan agama tidak pernah dilarang secara resmi.

Negara menganjurkan penghancuran agama, dan secara resmi menyatakan keyakinan agama merupakan takhayul dan terbelakang.Froese, Paul. "'I am an atheist and a Muslim': Islam, communism, and ideological competition." Journal of Church and State 47.3 (2005) Partai Komunis menghancurkan gereja, masjid, dan sinagoga, mengejek, melecehkan, memenjarakan dan mengeksekusi para pemimpin keagamaan, memenuhi sekolah-sekolah dan media dengan ajaran-ajaran anti-agama, dan memperkenalkan sebuah sistem kepercayaan yang disebut "ateisme ilmiah," dengan ritual, janji, dan propagandisnya sendiri.Paul Froese. Forced Secularization in Soviet Russia: Why an Atheistic Monopoly Failed. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 35-50Haskins, Ekaterina V. "Russia's postcommunist past: the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the reimagining of national identity." History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past 21.1 (2009) Jumlah total korban umat Kristen di bawah rezim Soviet diperkirakan berkisar antara 14-22 juta.”Estimates of the total number all Christian martyrs in the former Soviet Union are about 12 million.”, James M. Nelson, “Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality”, Springer, 2009, , p. 427”In all, it is estimated that some 15 to 20 million Christians were martyred under the Soviet regime”, David Barrett, “World Christian Trends”, Pasadena: William Carey Library, 2001, cited by David Taylor, ”21 Signs of His Coming: Major Biblical Prophecies Being Fulfilled In Our Generation”, Taylor Publishing Group, 2009, , p. 220”over 20 million were martyred in Soviet prison camps”, Todd M. Johnson, “Christian Martyrdom: A global demographic assessment“ , p. 4

Kepercayaan dan praktik keagamaan bertahan di antara mayoritas penduduk, di ruang domestik dan pribadi, tetapi juga di ruang publik yang tersebar yang diizinkan oleh negara yang mengakui kegagalannya untuk memusnahkan agama dan bahaya politik dari perang budaya yang tak henti-hentinya.John Shelton Curtis, The Russian Church and the Soviet State (Boston: Little Brown, 1953); Jane Ellis, The Russian Orthodox Church: A Contemporary History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986); Dimitry V. Pospielovsky, The Russian Church Under the Soviet Regime 1917-1982 (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1984); idem., A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Anti-Religious Policies (New York; St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Glennys Young, Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious Activists in the Village (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997); Daniel Peris, Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998); William B. Husband, “Godless Communists”: Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000; Edward Roslof, Red Priests: Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905-1946 (Bloomington, Indiana, 2002)

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 Bibliografi 
 And God Created Lenin: Marxism vs. Religion in Russia, 1917-1929. Author: Paul Gabel  
 Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless Author: Daniel Peris Publisher: Cornell University Press   
 The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization Author: Paul Froese Publisher: University of California Press   
 Religion and the State in Russia and China: Suppression, Survival, and Revival Author: Christopher Marsh  
 Russian Society and the Orthodox Church: Religion in Russia after Communism Author: Zoe Knox Publisher: Routledge (August 13, 2009)  
 "Godless communists": atheism and society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 Author: William Husband Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press   
 Secularism Soviet Style: Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic Author: Sonja Luehrmann Publisher: Indiana University Press  
 Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia Author: Victoria Frede Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press   
 After Atheism: Religion and Ethnicity in Russia and Central Asia (Caucasus World) Author: David C. Lewis Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan   
 Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution Author: Vera Shevzov Oxford University Press, USA   
 The Heart of Russia: Trinity-Sergius, Monasticism, and Society after 1825 Author: Scott M. Kenworthy Oxford University Press, USA 
 State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and Ukraine Editor: Catherine Wanner Oxford University Press USA 

 Pranala luar 
 Lenin's letter to Molotov on Shuia crisis
 Letters of Metropolitan Sergii of Vilnius
 Butovo site of mass executions of Orthodox Clergy - One thousand of those killed here are known to have died for their Orthodox faith.
 Post Soviet challenges for the Russian Orthodox Church
 Library of Congress articles on the Soviet archives
 Link to Russian Archives
 Н.Е. Емельянов Оценка статистики гонений на Русскую Православную Церковь (1917–1952 годы)

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