Yemelyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavsky (Russian: ??????? ?????????? ???????????, born Minei Izrailevich Gubelman, ????´? ????´?????? ????????´?; 3 March [O.S.
19 February] 1878 – 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.
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.