Atheism in the Soviet Union

irreligious and anti-clerical element of Marxism–Leninism

God-Building is an idea proposed by some prominent early Marxists in the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in the early-20th century. Inspired by Auguste Comte's Religion of Humanity, the concept had some precedent in the French Revolution with the Cult of Reason of the 1790s. The idea proposed that in place of the abolition of religion, there should be a meta-religious context in which religions were viewed primarily in terms of the psychological and social effect of ritual, myth, and symbolism. God-building aimed to harness this force for pro-communist aims, bot

Soviet constitutional change