Regional features of state-church relations in the Soviet period in the South of Russia

The article is devoted to the policy in the sphere of state-religious relations in the 20-30s of the XX century. It is shown that the policy of creating a mass atheist movement, declared by the Bolsheviks as large-scale, in practice in the period under study turned out to be much more modest in its results. Real politics sometimes took place outside the activities of the "Union of Militant Atheists". It is shown that the relations of state and party bodies with religious organizations at the regional level in the 1920s carried characteristic features inherent in "church politics" in the whole country.