Ateist

*Ateist (Атеист)*
	December, 1928 issue of Atheist
Editor	I. A. Spitzberg
Categories	antireligious
Frequency	Monthly
Founded	1922
Final issue	1930
Country	Soviet Union/Russia
Based in	Moscow
Language	Russian

Ateist (Template:Lang-ru; lit. «Atheist») was an antireligious monthly magazine in Russian, which was published from 1922 to 1930 in the RSFSR and the USSR.

The scientific society «Ateist» arose in 1921 in Moscow, on the initiative of P. A. Krasikov and I. A. Shpitsberg in order to promote the best works on criticizing religion. Shpitsberg became the editor-in-chief of the magazine. The first two issues of the publication «Atheist» were printed in the form of a newspaper in 1922, in February and March. The format of the newspaper was considered uncomfortable and it was decided to publish a magazine. From April 1922 to April 1925 the magazine did not go out. The numbers of the magazine from 1 to 59 were published from 1925 to 1930. 59 issue of the magazine was the last. The main objective of the magazine is to highlight the problem of the history of religion and the history of atheism, to print the chronicle of the spread of atheism in the USSR and abroad, as well as translations (including bourgeois scholars) about religion and the church.

The magazine declared that it was ready to render all possible assistance to atheists.

Editorial Board of the magazine: N. Rumyantsev, V. Shishakov, E. Fedorov-Greekulov, I. Voronitsyn, professor S. A. Kamenev, professor S. G. Lozinsky, professor V. T. Dityakin and I. A. Shpitsberg (editor-in-chief). The circulation of the magazine is 4,000 copies. The slogan of the magazine, which was printed on the front page: «Religion is a datura for the people» (Template:Lang-ru). Author of the logo of the publishing house and magazine: Dmitry Moor. "Ateist" Publisher was at the address: Moscow, Granatny Lane, house 1. The bookstore was located at: Malaya Nikitskaya Street, house 12.

The objectives of the magazine were:

1. ideological struggle with religion, as an ideological superstructure, unscientific and harmful to the working masses.
2. the struggle with the organization of churchmen, both with political power, which uses the religious superstitions of all cults in its oppressive purposes

League of Militant Atheists began publishing a magazine «Voinstvuiuschii ateizm» (Template:Lang-ru; lit. «Militant Atheism») in 1931. This magazine was a replacement for the magazine «Ateist».^[1]

References

^ 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.

[1] 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.

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