Bezbozhnik (newspaper)

Bezbozhnik (Безбожник)
22 April 1923 issue of Bezbozhnik
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
FoundedDecember 21, 1922
Ceased publicationJuly 20, 1941
LanguageRussian
CountrySoviet Union
Circulation15,000 to 400,000

Bezbozhnik (Russian: Безбожник; "The Godless One") was an anti-religious and atheistic newspaper published in the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1941 by the League of Militant Atheists. Its first issue was published in December 1922, with a print run of 15,000, but its circulation reached as much as 200,000 in 1932.

Between 1923 and 1931, there was also a magazine called Bezbozhnik u Stanka (Безбожник у станка; "The Godless One at the Workbench"). From 1928 to 1932 a magazine for peasants Derevenskiy Bezbozhnik (Деревенский безбожник; "The Rural Godless One") was published. In 1928, one issue of the magazine Bezbozhnik za kul'turnuyu revolyutsiyu (Безбожник за культурную революцию; "The Godless One for the Cultural Revolution") was published.