VESTNIK of Samara University. Aerospace and Mechanical EngineeringVESTNIK of Samara University. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering2542-04532541-7533Samara National Research University46210.18287/2541-7533-2006-0-3(11)-99-103Power and church in the early twenties of the XX centurysadohina@ssau.ruRussian Academy of State Service under the President of Russian Federation, Moscow18092006539910326052014Copyright © 2015, VESTNIK of the Samara State Aerospace University2015The paper presents an evaluation of the preparatory stage of bolsheviks’ political and economic campaign of forcible seizing church values. The causes of disagreement on this matter in the supreme governing bodies of the country in the early December of 1921.