The Anti-Religious Campaign of Soviet Authoroties In The Mono-City of Kazakhstan

Year 2018, Volume: 3 Issue: 4, 19 - 31, 30.12.2018

Yerzhan Pazılov Gulzhan Otarbayeva

Abstract

This article concerns the main direction of the
anti-religious campaign of Soviet authorities in Kazakhstan on the example of
Kentau multicultural mono-city. The subject of the study is the policy and
practice of local authorities to fulfill the tasks of the anti-religious
campaign, the response of believers, the forms of their protection and
resistance, the results of the anti-religious campaign in the mono-city. The
article analyzes the religious life of Kentau mono-city, built in the second
half of the 20th century as a "new city", free from the vices of
capitalist society, including religion. When creating new cities, their key
feature and main advantage, according to the ideologists of the Soviet
authorities, was the lack of historical memory, the past in any of its
manifestations, including, in the religious ones. This feature was to
contribute to a more active formation in the mono-city of a new life and a new
type of man - a Soviet man. The author comes to the conclusion that, despite
anti-religious measures on the part of the Soviet authorities and the
declaration of the idea "Kentau is a mono-city without mosques and
churches," the population continued to perform religious activities, and
the spectrum of confessions in the city was wide enough.

Keywords

Anti-religious campaign, Kentau mono-city, Communist ideology, Everyday life, Soviet authorities.

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