Bezbozhnik (russian: «Безбожник»; translation of the name: «The Godless») was an illustrated magazine, an organ of the Centre Soviet and Moscow Oblast Soviet of the
League of the Militant Godless
The League of Militant Atheists (), also Society of the Godless () or Union of the Godless (), was an atheistic and antireligious organization of workers and intelligentsia that developed in Soviet Russia under influence of the ideological and ...
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The magazine was published in Moscow from March 1925 to June 1941. From 1926 to 1932, the magazine was published twice a month. In other years, the magazine was published once a month. From 1926 to 1932, the editor-in-chief of the magazine was
Y. M. Yaroslavsky. From 1933 to 1941, the editor-in-chief of the magazine was
F. M. Putintsev.
The magazine was designed for the mass working reader. On its pages articles, essays, fictional works were printed. The magazine criticized religion from the point of view of
Marxism
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
. In addition, the magazine covered the experience of the atheistic work of the cells of the League of the Militant Godless. The magazine included works by cartoonists N. F. Denisovsky,
M. M. Cheremnykh,
D. S. Moor,
K. S. Eliseev and others.
The circulation of the magazine «Bezbozhnik» reached 200 thousand copies.
[ Вопросы Научного Атеизма. Выпуск 18. 1975./ М. М. Шейман. / У истоков массового атеизма./ С. 325]
See also
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Bezbozhnik (newspaper)
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Bezbozhnik u Stanka
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Derevenskiy Bezbozhnik
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Persecutions of the Catholic Church and Pius XII
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Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union
Throughout the history of the Soviet Union (1917–1991), there were periods when Soviet authorities brutally suppressed and persecuted various forms of Christianity to different extents depending on State interests. Soviet Marxist-Lenini ...
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Persecution of Muslims in the former USSR
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Religion in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was established by the Bolsheviks in 1922, in place of the Russian Empire. At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the Russian Orthodox Church was deeply integrated into the autocratic state, enjoying official status. This was a si ...
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State atheism
State atheism is the incorporation of positive atheism or non-theism into political regimes. It may also refer to large-scale secularization attempts by governments. It is a form of religion-state relationship that is usually ideologically li ...
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USSR anti-religious campaign (1928–1941)
The USSR anti-religious campaign of 1928–1941 was a new phase of anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union following the anti-religious campaign of 1921–1928. The campaign began in 1929, with the drafting of new legislation that severely ...
References
Notes
*«Православие : Словарь атеиста» /
еленкин И. Ф. и др. / Под общей редакцией доктора философских наук Н. С. Гордиенко/ - М. : Политиздат, 1988. - 270,
с.; 17 см.; {{ISBN, 5-250-00079-7 / С. 34
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Атеистический словарь /
бдусамедов А. И., Алейник Р. М., Алиева Б. А. и др. ; под общ. ред. М. П. Новикова - 2-е изд., испр. и доп. - Москва : Политиздат, 1985. - 512 с.; 20 см / С. 51
Безбожник / Православная энциклопедия / Т. 4, С. 444-445
Magazines established in 1925
1941 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
Magazines published in Moscow
1925 establishments in the Soviet Union
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Atheism publications
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Anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union
Anti-Christian sentiment in Europe
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Persecution of Muslims
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Anti-Islam sentiment in the Soviet Union