Yunyye Bezbozhniki
Yunyye Bezbozhniki: zhurnal shkol'nogo bezbozhnogo aktiva (Russian: «Юные безбожники: журнал школьного безбожного актива»; translation of the name: «Young Atheists: Magazine of Atheist Schoolchildren-Activists», or «Young Godless: Magazine of Godless Schoolchildren-Activists») was a monthly magazine for schoolchildren, an organ of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR and the Central Soviet of the League of Militant Atheists of the USSR.[1]
Cover of the magazine «Yunyye bezbozhniki» 1931. No. 3 - 4. May - June | |
Editor | I. A. Flerov |
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Categories | antireligious |
Frequency | Monthly |
Year founded | March, 1931 |
Final issue | January, 1933 |
Country | Soviet Union/Russia |
Based in | Moscow |
Language | Russian |
It was published in Moscow in 1931–1933. A total of 23 issues were printed. «Yunyye Bezbozhniki» gave a broad and entertaining information on the history of religion and atheism, science, technology, as well as on the atheistic movement among young people in the USSR and abroad. The magazine provided scientific and methodological assistance in the atheistic education of students, summarized the experience of anti-religious school circles. The editor-in-chief of the magazine «Yunyye Bezbozhniki» was the famous Moscow teacher-atheist I. A. Flerov.[2] Editorial Board: N. Amosov,[3] A. Smirnov,[4] I. Flerov.[5] In the magazine published works: L. Kassil, S. Kirsanov, V. Smirnova, M. Gershenzon, G. Gradov,[6] A, Nasimovich, N. Sher[7] and others. The magazine included works by cartoonists D. Moor, P. Staronosov,[8] A. Korotkin,[9] A. Kozlov[10] and others.
The slogan of the magazine, which was printed above the title of the magazine on the right: «The struggle against religion – the struggle for socialism» (Russian: «Борьба против религии — борьба за социализм»). The magazine was published by the Publishing House «Moskovskiy Rabochiy» («Moscow Worker»), OGIZ.[11]
See also
- Bezbozhnik (newspaper)
- Council for Religious Affairs
- Culture of the Soviet Union
- Demographics of the Soviet Union
- Persecutions of the Catholic Church and Pius XII
- Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union
- Persecution of Christians in Warsaw Pact countries
- Persecution of Muslims in the former USSR
- Red Terror
- Religion in Russia
- Religion in the Soviet Union
- Society of the Godless
- Soviet Orientalist studies in Islam
- State atheism
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1917–1921)
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1921–1928)
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1928–1941)
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1958–1964)
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1970s–1990)
Notes
- Атеистический словарь / [Абдусамедов 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. 509
- Православие: Словарь атеиста / Под ред. Н. С. Гордиенко. — М.: Политиздат, 1988. — 270[2] с.; 17 см.; ISBN 5-250-00079-7 : / Стр. 269
- Амосов Николай Константинович — сотрудник ЦС СБ-СВБ СССР, с 13 ноября 1928 г. председатель секции по работе с детьми, с 07 октября 1929 г. сотрудник школьно-пионерской секции.
- Russian: Смирнов, Александр Алексеевич
- Юные безбожники реклама типографии издательства «Дер Эмес»
- Russian: Градов, Григорий Яковлевич
- Russian: Шер, Надежда Сергеевна
- Russian: Староносов, Петр Николаевич
- Russian: А Короткин
- Russian: А. Козлов
- Лариса Николаевна Колесова. Детские журналы Советской России: учебное пособие. / Изд. Петрозаводского государственного университета, 1993 / 146 с. / С. 116
References
- Атеистический словарь / [Абдусамедов 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. 509