TY  - JOUR
TT  - The Soviet Union’s Politics of Belief, Moral and Family on Muslims
AU  - Musahan, Ali Yıldız
PY  - 2015
DA  - December
DO  - 10.29288/ilted.308481
JF  - İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi
JO  - ilted
PB  - Ataturk University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2458-7508
SP  - 227
EP  - 246
VL  - 0
IS  - 44
KW  - SSCB
KW  - İnanç
KW  - Ahlak
KW  - Aile
KW  - Toplum
KW  - Ateizm
N2  - The Soviet Union regime demanded from people who resided in its land to embrace socialist sentiments, andasked them to follow the communist ideology. Actually, it enforced people for that. For that reason, belief, moraland family structure of Muslims who lived in the Soviet Union was intervened; Irreligiousness and atheism wereimposed by the Soviet regime to Muslims. The aim of the Soviet regime was consisting of that to growing a model of“the Soviet people,” without any exceptions, depriving all Soviet Union’s citizens from belief of God, religiousmorals, and family culture. In the direction of this purpose, from kindergarten to higher education, a human mademoral and ethics principles were strived to infuse into individuals which were not based on any spiritual orreligious belief.The atheism, the belief in the non existence of God, was adopted as the main ideology in the Soviet Union’sera, primarily Muslims and Christians, and members of the other religions tried to live their religious lifessecretively and kept it as minimal. When the life style of individuals who were atheist in the Soviet Union wasexamined; it was seen that these individuals were honest, simple, civil, loyal to the state, disciplined, observer of therights in law. They abided by the rules. However, these Soviet people were honest and of moral principles, generallybecause of fear and being oppressed by the regime or it is because of socialist education system’s achievement, or itsbecause the religious beliefs and consciousness were still surviving in the family and the society? Especially after independence,this question was the first question which comes to minds. Furthermore, it can be seen that while theUSSR was struggling to create an unbeliever but a moral society, and a educated society, it (the USSR) could notdecide exactly what kind of criterions should be used to decide as the limits of moral and principles of moral. Aftera certain time, the USSR allowed to Muslims who insisted in their beliefs to get religious education, but thisreligious education was also watched closely the regime.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.29288/ilted.308481
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/296835
ER  -