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Yemelyan Yaroslavsky

1878 - 1943

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yemelyan Yaroslavsky is the 11,553rd most popular politician (down from 11,326th in 2019), the 1,136th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,199th in 2019) and the 314th most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky ranks 11,553 out of 19,576. Before him are Richard Huelsenbeck, Conan II, Duke of Brittany, Matei Basarab, Hendrikus Colijn, Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany, and Paul Carell. After him are Ivan Fedyuninsky, Fatima Sheikh, Conan IV, Duke of Brittany, Dragoș, Voivode of Moldavia, Giovanni Dolfin, and Gevork Vartanian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky ranks 130. Before him are J. F. C. Fuller, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Clara Westhoff, Emmy Destinn, Max Dehn, and Margaret Abbott. After him are Lina Stern, Luís of Orléans-Braganza, Anton Heida, Selim Palmgren, Karl Buresch, and Anna Coleman Ladd. Among people deceased in 1943, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky ranks 119. Before him are Hàm Nghi, Kostis Palamas, Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony, Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia, Lajos Werkner, and Yury Tynyanov. After him are Azim Azimzade, Rutka Laskier, Winnaretta Singer, Hristo Lukov, Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, and Walther von Hünersdorff.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky ranks 1,136 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Bodrov (1948), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), Feodosia Morozova (1632), Alexander Chavchavadze (1786), Oleg Kalugin (1934), and Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow (1910). After him are Ivan Fedyuninsky (1900), Gevork Vartanian (1924), Boris Stürmer (1848), Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669), Alexander Alyabyev (1787), and Sergei Gerasimov (1906).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky ranks 314. Before him are Viacheslav I of Kiev (1083), Svetlana Medvedeva (1965), Yegor Ligachyov (1920), Dmitry of Suzdal (1322), Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia (1877), and Vladislav Surkov (1964). After him are Ivan Fedyuninsky (1900), Gevork Vartanian (1924), Boris Stürmer (1848), Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669), Alexander Yakovlev (1923), and Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (1825).

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