Myśl Karola Marksa w interpretacji Włodzimierza Lenina jako czynnik motywujący antyreligijne ustawodawstwo sowieckie po Rewolucji Październikowej

The thought of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin were legal and social in the socialist states. In the text, the author discusses the assumptions propagated by the said authors, focusing on the understanding of the relationship between state and religion and religious freedom. The proponent of state atheism in the post-revolutionary reality was Karl Marx. Seizing power in Russia, after 1918 the Bolsheviks decided to incorporate Marxian thought into the legislation of the still-forming Soviet state. In the article, the author emphasizes the considerable degree to which the founders of the Soviet state were inspired by the thought of Karl Marx and, on the basis of this ideological background, presents the legal as well as actual actions that led to the creation of an atheist state and a state that fought against all manifestations of state religiosity.