PROPAGANDA AND THE MASS MEDIA DURING KHRUSHCHEV’S ANTI-RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN (1954 – 1964)

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the study of propaganda aspects during Khrushchev’s anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union (1954 – 1964). The following questions are considered: ideological methods of the Soviet government’s policy in the sphere of state-religion relations; the role of mass media, propogandists of scientific atheism and intelligence services in anti-religious activity.

Keywords

• propaganda
• scientific atheism
• mass media
• intelligence services
• state-religion relations
• the soviet union