Rozhitsyn, Valentin Sergeevich

He was engaged in science and literary activity even before the revolution. From May to the fall of 1918, he was one of the publishers and editors of the socialist illustrated literary and artistic weekly Ears in Kharkov .

According to the memoirs of the Kharkov cubic futurist artist, graphic artist, one of the largest scenographers of the Ukrainian SSR Boris Kosarev (1897-1994), a whole group of artists, including B.V. Kosarev, designed this magazine, and there was a break with the publisher when V. S Rozhitsyn forced them to complete the magazine not in two weeks as usual, but in a week, threatening otherwise to hand them over to the Germans, who at that time occupied Kharkov.

Under the Soviet regime, he was actively engaged in the promotion of new art and a new worldview. For many years he studied the life and work of the materialist and atheist Giordano Bruno .

V. S. Rozhitsin gained wide fame when the Soviet government urgently needed scientists for anti-religious propaganda . Thanks to his many anti-religious brochures, V.S. Rozhitsin soon changed the capital of the Ukrainian SSR Kharkov to Moscow, although experts were extremely critical of his work. Only his main book, “ Giordano Bruno and the Inquisition, ” which was published posthumously, is still considered the best book on this topic. In the book, he highlights an important moment in the history of Renaissance culture and serves to popularize the work of one of the outstanding fighters for the triumph of materialistic ideas, against the Catholic reaction.

He worked at the Central Anti-Religious Museum in Moscow.

Published by him with a circulation of 5,000 copies, the book about communism , intended for official propaganda, helped V. S. Rozhitsin successfully make his career on the party line.

• The development of the doctrine of forms of government in Greek political literature // Collection of articles in honor of prof. V.P. Buzeskula. (Kharkov, 1914)
• Book Review: "The Ancient World in the Monuments of its Writing. 1915, Volume 1. (1915)
• International. 1864-1917. An Essay on the History of the International Union of Workers (Book Publishing House "Friend of the People", 1917)
• The Russian revolution in the light of the Western European revolutions of 1730-1789 - in France, 1917 in Russia (Book publishing house “Friend of the people”, 1917)
• Art and the falling world. Collection of new art. (Edition of the All-Ukrainian Department of Arts of the People's Commissariat of Education, 1919)
• The construction of proletarian art. (Revolutionary art. Kiev, Propaganda Bureau of the All-Ukrainian Literary Committee of the People's Commissariat of Education, 1919)
• How people created god. (Kharkov. Glavpolitprosvet USSR, 1922)
• The Origin of Christianity (1922)
• Revolution against God (1922)
• The World to Come: Compilation / Ed. V. Rozhitsyn. (Kharkov: Glavpolitprosvet of the Ukrainian SSR, 1922)
• Neo-Kantianism and Marxism (Kharkov: Glavpolitprosvet of the Ukrainian SSR, 1922)
• Primitive communism (Kharkov. Glavpolitprosvet of the Ukrainian SSR, 1923)
• Is there an afterlife? (1923)
• Easter (1924)
• Nativity of Christ (1925)
• The Dying God: The Origin of the Christian Cult of the Suffering, Dying, and Resurrecting God Jesus (Proletarian, 1925)
• The Origin of the Christian Father God (Kharkov: Proletarian, 1925)
• Hegel and Feuerbach on religion (M.-L, 1925)
• The origin of the holy books. (et al. L.: Surf, 1925, M., 1925)
• Early Christianity in the consecration of contemporaries. (M.-L, 1926)
• Tikhonovs, Renovationists and the counter-revolution. (M.-L., 1926)
• Atheism of A.S. Pushkin. (Publisher: Atheist, 1928)
• Holy Easter (1929)
• The Golden Legend: A Book of Holy Martyrs (State Publishing House, 1925., M.: Atheist, 1930)
• Giordano Bruno and the Inquisition. (M .: Iz-in AN SSSR, 1955)
• Marxist introduction to science
• Giordano Bruno Documents and testimonies of contemporaries (manuscript provided with detailed comments and notes)

• Works by V. S. Rozhitsin
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