5 INTRODUCTION
  CHAPTER 1
  THE SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF COMMUNIST PARTY POLICY TOWARD RELIGION AND THE CHURCH
8 Marx and Engels on Religion
13 Developing a Principled Party Attitude to Religion
21 Lenin’s Struggle Against Opportunistic Views on the Party’s Attitude to Religion
28 Religion and the Church after the Overthrow of Autocracy
  CHAPTER 2
  LENIN’S DECREE “ON THE SEPARATION OF THE CHURCH FROM THE STATE AND THE SCHOOL FROM THE CHURCH” AND ITS HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE
31 First Decrees of Soviet Power
38 The First Counter-Revolutionary Actions of Churchmen
41 Birth of Lenin’s Decree
47 The Significance of the Decree “On the Separation of the Church from, the State and the School from the Church” and Its Enforcement
63 The USSR Constitution and Legal Status of Religious Organisations
  CHAPTER 3
75 GUARANTEES OF FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE IN THE USSR
  CHAPTER 4
  EVOLUTION OF RELIGIONS AND DYNAMICS OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF IN THE SOVIET UNION
  EVOLUTION OF THE SOCIAL CONCEPTS OF MODERN RELIGIONS
87 The Church’s Counter-Revolutionary Stance During the Early Years of Soviet Power
93 The Attempts to Starve the Soviet Republic to Death
97 The Beginning of the Russian Orthodox Church’s Evolution
102 The Clergy and the Church in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945
109 What Does the Evolution of Religion Really Mean?
111 Sectarianism in the USSR and Its Evolution
127 THE DYNAMICS OF GROWING ATHEISM AND OF THE DECLINE IN RELIGIOUS BELIEFS OF THE SOVIET POPULATION
  CHAPTER 5
  THE TRIUMPH OF FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE IN THE USSR
151 Bourgeois and Socialist Concepts of Freedom of Conscience
155 Man’s Spiritual Emancipation and the Shaping of the Materialist World-Outlook
157 The Ways of Overcoming Religious Prejudices
172 Criticism of the Bourgeois Ideologists Trying to Use Religion for the Purpose of Anti-Communism
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