Lamont C. Soviet Russia and Religion

New York: International Publishers, 1936. — 24 p.What is happening to religion in Soviet Russia? What proportion of the people still go to church there? How many of them actually are atheists? Is there religious persecution under the Communist regime? What has become of the minor faiths in Russia such as Judaism, Mohammedanism, and the various forms of Protestantism? How is the anti-religious movement in the U.S.S.R. related to the collectivization and mechanization of agriculture? Exactly why are the Communists opposed to religion? What will be the future of religion in the Soviet Union? These and numerous other questions about religion are constantly cropping up in the widespread discussion that goes on everywhere these days concerning the Soviet Union. And in this pamphlet I shall try to answer such questions as briefly and clearly as possible.