Yemelyan Yaroslavsky

Yemelyan Yaroslavsky
Емельян Ярославский
Yaroslavsky in 1917
Member of the 10th Secretariat
In office
16 March – 8 August 1921
Full member of the 10th, 18th Central Committee
In office
22 April 1939 – 4 December 1943
In office
16 March – 8 August 1921
Personal details
BornMinei Israilevich Gubelman
March 3 [O.S. February 19] 1878
Died4 December 1943 (aged 65)
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
PartyRSDLP (1898–1903)
RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918)
Russian Communist Party (1918–1943)
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Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky (Russian: Емелья́н Миха́йлович Яросла́вский, born Minei Izrailevich Gubelman, Мине́й Изра́илевич Губельма́н; 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1878 – 4 December 1943) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Communist Party functionary, journalist and historian.

An atheist and anti-religious polemicist, Yaroslavsky served as editor of the atheist satirical magazine Bezbozhnik (The Godless) and led the League of the Militant Godless organization. Yaroslavsky also headed the Anti-Religious Committee of the Central Committee. In his book How Gods and Goddesses Are Born, Live, and Die (1923), Yaroslavsky argued that religion was born under man, lived under man, and would die under communism.