ATHEISTIC PROPAGANDA AMONG GORKY’S SCHOOLCHILDREN IN THE EARLY 1930s

The paper examines the issues of atheistic education of Soviet schoolchildren, carried out by the League of Militant Atheists. A focus is placed on the history of the establishment of this organisation, its activities in general and among the children of Nizhny Novgorod in particular. The paper analyses the features of the organisation of children’s godless movement in a Soviet city school, pioneers, as well as among preschool children. Attention is paid to the key features of atheistic propaganda, as well as its forms and methods. An emphasis is also placed on the influence of atheism on the consciousness of children.