The role of the youth of Burytia in the policy realization of the population's atheization (1920s)

As known, the anti-religious campaign had become one of the most important components of the Soviet ideological system. It aimed to oust the ideas of the divine principle and of the priority of heavenly life over the earthly one from the collective consciousness. The vacant place was taken by a new faith in a bright communist future, for the arrival of which it was necessary to put a lot of work there and than. The peak of the struggle against religion was in the period in 1920s. The Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (the official name of Buryatia from May 30, 1923 to 1958) was specific in this matter because of the many diverse religions and cults. Buddhism, Orthodoxy and Shamanism were intertwined and Old Believers lived compactly around the capital of the republic. Therefore, the policy of population’s atheization was more specific than in mono-confessional regions. In this regard, the Soviet government tried to win the support of young people and to put them in the vanguard of the struggle against religion. The article deals with the role of the youth in the population’s atheization in the difficult multi-religious region