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
Born	Minei Israilevich Gubelman March 3 [O.S. February 19] 1878 Chita, Russian Empire
Died	4 December 1943 (aged 65) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Political party	RSDLP (1898–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1943)

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.