The Soviet Union was the first state to make mass murder an ideological imperative, especially against people of faith. By the beginning of the Second World War, almost all clergy and millions of believers of all religions and denominations had been shot or sent to labor camps.
Mass Murder and Public Slavery
The Soviet Experience
By Yuri N. Maltsev
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| Other Independent Review articles by Yuri N. Maltsev | |
| Summer 2008 | Resisting the State:Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia |
| Winter 2005/06 | Privatization and Piratization in Post-Communist Russia |
| Spring 1996 | Dismantling Utopia:How Information Ended the Soviet Union |
