Abstract:
At the present stage, the study of certain features and manifestations of Soviet
religious policy ocupies a special place in Sovietology, because it is quite obvious
that this is an issue without which it is almost impossible to analyze the ideological
policy of the Soviet government.
A particularly important issue in this regard is the religious policy of Nikita
Khrushchev, as it is characterized by a number of interesting t rends.
When discussing the religious policy of Nikita Khrushchev, scholars interested
in the study of the issue pay particular attention to the anti-religious campaign of
1954, because it reflects important issues of ideological policy produced by the government.
It is also quite obvious that Nikita Khrushchev’s religious policy, and in particular
the anti-religious campaign of 1954, is clearly imbued with the charge of
de-Stalinization, and this issue is all the more interesting in that it precedes the XX
Congress of the CPSU, where the personality cult and dictatorship of Joseph Stalin
was denounced.
The purpose of this paper is to study how Nikita Khrushchev’s 1954 anti-religious
campaign was reflected in the pages of the newspaper “axalgazrda stalineli”
(Young Stalinian), what tendencies it reflected and what were the peculiarities of its
development.
Given that the newspaper “axalgazrda stalineli” (Young Stalinian) was the official newspaper of Tbilisi State University, we think it is interesting how this important
event was reflected in its pages.
In parallel with the study of the issue, we will also discuss the attitudes of the
print media, Vladimir Lenin, the ideological founder of the Soviet Union, and Nikita
Khrushchev, towards the print media.
In the study of the anti-religious campaign of 1954, naturally, we consider the
official decrees adopted by the government, as it was in a way that set the tone for
specific directions, which would later be reflected throughout the country .
