Yemelyan Yaroslavsky [SEP] country of citizenship
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky
Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky (, born Minei Izrailevich Gubelman, Мине́й Изра́илевич Губельма́н; – 4 December 1943) was an ethnic Jewish Russian Bolshevik Revolutionary, Communist Party Member, Journalist, and Historian.
An atheist and anti-religious polemicist, Yaroslavsky served as editor of the atheist satirical journal Bezbozhnik (The Godless) and led the League of the Militant Godless organization. Yaroslavsky also headed the Anti-Religious Committee of the Central Committee.
Biography.
Biography Early years.
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky was born into a Jewish
services within the walls of the few churches that would remain open, and even these would be subject to much interference and harassment. Catechism classes, religious schools, study groups, Sunday schools and religious publications were all illegal and/or banned.
The League of the Militant Godless, under Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, was the main instrument of the anti-religious campaign and it was given special powers that allowed it to dictate to public institutions throughout the country what they needed to do for the campaign.
After 1929 and through the 1930s