Anti-religious campaign during the Russian Civil War

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The anti-religious campaign during the Russian Civil War describes the promotion of state atheism and persecution of the religious that accompanied the rise of the former Soviet Union from the earliest days after the revolution in 1917. The initial anti-religious campaign after the revolution focused on Christianity (particularly the Eastern Orthodox Church), which was characterized by the killing of thousands, along with antireligious legislation meant to deprive the Church of its capacity to function.^[1]