The Issue of Women in the Prism of Soviet Anti-religious Policy

Abstract

Soviet religious policy from the very beginning was characterized by heterogeneity, bias, and one-sidedness from the very beginning, with communism and atheism considered as the mainstays of ideology. The Bolsheviks seemed to preach the inviolability of the religious feelings of the believers, but in fact fought with fire and sword against any manifestation of religiosity. The Soviet government encouraged controversy among believers. A clear confirmation of this was the so-called The chador taking campaign, which has been met with serious controversy in the region. Examining the problems related to the wearing of the chador, presenting the issue of women in the context of anti-religious policies, is the main task of our research. The methodological basis of the research is the universal scientific principles of objectivity, comprehensiveness and systematics, historical-comparative and historicaltypological methods. According to the factual materials presented in the article, the analysis of the documents kept in the Adjara Archive Division clearly shows the Soviet policy of neglecting and insulting the religious feelings of the believers, which led to large-scale anti-Soviet protests in mountainous Adjara in 1929.