Voinstvuiuschii ateizm (russian: «Воинствующий атеизм»; german: «Der kämpfende Atheismus»; eo, «Militanta ateismo»;
lit. «Militant Atheism»)
was an antireligious monthly magazine in Russian, German and Esperanto, which was published in the course of 1931, January to December, in the
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
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League of Militant Atheists
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 ...
began publishing a magazine «Voinstvuiuschii ateizm» in 1931.
[ Dimitry V. Pospielovsky]
A History of Soviet Atheism in Theory, and Practice, and the Believer, vol 1: A History of Marxist-Leninist Atheism and Soviet Anti-Religious Policies, St Martin's Press, New York (1987) p. 61.
/ref> The magazine was the organ of the Central Council of the League of Militant Atheists of the USSR. P. A. Krasikov became the editor-in-chief of the magazine. This magazine was a replacement for the magazine « Ateist». The editorial board of the journal included Y. M. Yaroslavsky, F. M. Putintsev, A. A. Ivanovskii, E. D. Krinitsky, A. T. Lukachevsky, N. M. Matorin, A. Nyrchuk, V. N. Ralcevic, I. A. Shpitsberg (responsible secretary). The magazine published articles on various issues of Marxist atheism, criticism of bourgeois theories of the origin of religion, the history of atheism and free-thinking, as well as the experience of atheistic education.Atheistic Dictionary
Atheistic Dictionary (russian: Атеисти́ческий слова́рь) is a one-volume reference work devoted to various aspects of religion and atheism. It contains more than 2500 terms.
History of creation
The dictionary was the result ...
«Воинствующий Aтеизм»
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The circulation of the magazine was 5500 copies. The publishing house of the magazine was in Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
, on Sretenka Street, 10.
Dimitry Pospielovsky believes that the "scholarship" of the magazine did not fare very well, for the 1932 year it was swallowed up by magazine « Antireligioznik».
See also
* Bezbozhnik (newspaper)
* Council for Religious Affairs The Council for Religious Affairs (russian: Совет по делам религий) was a government council in the Soviet Union that dealt with religious activity in the country. It was founded in 1965 through the union of the Council for the ...
* Persecutions of the Catholic Church and Pius XII
* 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 ...
* Persecution of Muslims in the former USSR
* 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 ...
* 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 ...
* 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 ...
Notes
References
* Orthodox Encyclopedia
The ''Orthodox Encyclopedia'' (russian: Православная энциклопедия, translit=Pravoslavnaya entsiklopediya) is a specialized encyclopedia, published by the Church Research Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" under the general edito ...
br>Воинствующий атеизм. Т. 9, С. 210-211
Воинствующее безбожие в СССР за 15 лет. 1917-1932 : сборник / Центральный совет Союза воинствующих безбожников и Институт философии Коммунистической академии ; под редакцией М. Енишерлова, А. Лукачевского, М. Митина. - Москва : ОГИЗ : Государственное антирелигиозное издательство, 1932. - 525, (2) с. : ил., портр.;/ С. 395
* Воронцов, Георгий Васильевич. «Ленинская программа атеистического воспитания в действии (1917-1937 гг.)» / Ленингр. гос. ун-т им. А. А. Жданова. Ин-т повышения квалификации преподавателей обществ. наук. - енинград: Изд-во Ленингр. ун-та, 1973. - 174 с.;
* Православие: Словарь атеиста / Под ред. Н. С. Гордиенко. — М.: Политиздат, 1988. — 270 с.; 17 см.; {{ISBN, 5-250-00079-7 : / Стр. 58
Периодическая печать СССР 1917-1949. Том 1. Библиографический указатель. Издательство: М:, Всесоюзной книжной палаты . Год: 1958. / Стр. 85-86
* 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. 92
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