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Beginning of Anti-Clerical Terror During the October Revolution
DOI of the paper: 10.15382/sturII201673.69-90
Abstract
The article examines the deployment of anti-clerical terror during the October revolution, it reveals the most important factors, estimated numbers of victims, presented month by month from the end of October 1917 till spring 1918; comparative data from the First Russian revolution and the period after February 1917. Conclusion: the magnitude of the anti-clerical terror have been previously underestimated; it began during the October revolution, and even before the approval of the Soviet government momentum, close to a geometric progression; in winter of 1918 in some areas this terror began to acquire the character of mass repressions.
Keywords
Orthodox Church, October Revolution, anti-clerical terror, repressions, “goneniya”, Bolsheviks, victims, statistics
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