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According to the [[University of Cambridge]], historically, the "most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 [[Russian Revolution]], which brought the [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]] to power."<ref name="Marxism-Leninism">{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130728215151/http://www.investigatingatheism.info/marxism.html|title=Investigating atheism: Marxism|publisher = [[University of Cambridge]]|quote=The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state.|year=2008|accessdate=July 17, 2014}}</ref> See also: [[Atheism and communism]] and [[Soviet atheism]]  

According to the [[University of Cambridge]], historically, the "most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 [[Russian Revolution]], which brought the [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]] to power."<ref name="Marxism-Leninism">{{cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130728215151/http://www.investigatingatheism.info/marxism.html|title=Investigating atheism: Marxism|publisher = [[University of Cambridge]]|quote=The most notable spread of atheism was achieved through the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought the Marxist-Leninists to power. For the first time in history, atheism thus became the official ideology of a state.|year=2008|accessdate=July 17, 2014}}</ref> See also: [[Atheism and communism]] and [[Soviet atheism]]  

The [[Gulag]] is the extensive network of prison camps used in the atheistic [[Soviet Union]] to imprison [[Joseph Stalin]]'s political enemies.  Although the prison camps housed a wide variety of criminals, it also had a large amount of political prisoners.

The [[Gulag]] is the extensive network of prison camps used in the atheistic [[Soviet Union]] to imprison [[Joseph Stalin]]'s political enemies.  Although the prison camps housed a wide variety of criminals, it also had a large amount of political prisoners, who were often abused by the common criminal inmates as punishments for often imagined violations of labor camp rules as were common criminal convicts often used as orderlies in Soviet psychiatric prisons.

For information about forced labor in Soviet prison camps, please see: [[Atheism and forced labor#Atheistic communism and forced labor|Atheistic communism and forced labor]]

For information about forced labor in Soviet prison camps, please see: [[Atheism and forced labor#Atheistic communism and forced labor|Atheistic communism and forced labor]]