BEZBOZHNIK - RUSSIAN ANTI-RELIGIOUS BOOKLET ~ 1923-1930

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Rare early original vintage copy of BEZBOZHNIK anti-religious Russian magazine and booklet
Title on Cover:  “BEZBOZHNIK - Anti religious Album - Book”.
Inside dated 1923 though 1930. Looks like this is a sample of best work from 1923-1930. With seven illustrations by famous Russian graphic artist Dmitry Moor (Dmitry Stakheivich Orlov).
Bezbozhnik  ("The Godless") was a monthly anti-religious and atheistic satirical magazine, published in the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1941 by the League of Militant Atheists. Between 1923 and 1931.
Initially, the publication ridiculed all religious belief as being a sign of ignorance and superstition, while claiming that the religion was dying in the officially atheist Soviet Union, with reports of closing churches, unemployed priests and ignored religious holidays. Starting with the mid-1920s, the Soviet government saw religion as an economic threat to the peasantry, whom, it said, were being oppressed by the clergy.
In 1932, with the economy staggering from the economic dislocation associated with the First Five-Year Plan, the Cultural Revolution was halted and a more moderate and pragmatic approach towards religion and other aspects of Soviet life was initiated by the regime. Destabilizing campaigns in the economy, education, and social relations were halted and a move made towards the restoration of traditional values. Bezbozhnik began to stray away from its original subject, anti-religion and atheism and it began publishing more general political subjects.
Membership in the League of the Militant Godless, which had ballooned during the Cultural Revolution to approximately 5 million plummeted to a few hundred thousand, bringing down the circulation of its newspaper in commensurate fashion. The newspaper's circulation fell rapidly beginning in 1932 and was terminated completely in 1935.
The League of the Militant Godless was closed down in 1941, during World War II and the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany.
Booklet is in excellent condition with light cover wear and no missing or damaged pages, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins.
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