Why We are Mad At You by an Atheist

[humblebum]

96. "identifying one leader under one Communist Oligarchy" - not hardly. The period

covers about 70 years and includes Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, and Mao, Hoxha, Ceaucescu, Pol Pot, etc can be added.

How many historians are you looking for? There quite a few. Here are a few:

Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A History of Soviet Atheism… by Dimitry V. Pospielovsky
Godless Communists: Atheism and Society in the Soviet Union by Husband
Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless by Peris
The Black Book of Communism by Courtois, et al.
Death by Government by R J Rummel
A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia by Alexander N. Yakovlev

"The Orthodox church suffered terribly in the 1930s, and many of its members were killed or sent to labor camps. In the period between 1927 and 1940, the number of Orthodox Churches in the Russian Republic fell from 29,584 to less than 500. 1929 was a watershed year in which Soviet policy brought much new legislation in place that would form the basis for the harsh anti-religious persecution in the following decade. Anti-religious education was introduced from the first-grade up in 1928 and anti-religious work was intensified throughout the education system.

A massive purge was conducted at the same time of Christian intellectuals, who mostly died in the camps or in prison, in order to take away the church’s intellectuals and assist official propaganda that only backward people believed in God."