History A-Level
Attacks on religious beliefs and practices
What Attacks on religious beliefs and practices means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Attacks on religious beliefs and practices
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Measures including closing churches and mosques, arresting clergy, and promoting atheism through organisations like the League of Militant Atheists.
Topics that use Attacks on religious beliefs and practices
- Control of the people, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Continuity and change in control methods
- Continuity and change in cultural policy
- Ideology and cultural production
- Propaganda
- Repression and terror
- Resistance and conformity
- State control versus artistic freedom
- Leadership of the secret police
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