Antireligioznik systematically covered the experience of the atheistic work of the League of Militant Atheists, published articles on the history of religion and atheism, propagated scientific atheism, and addressed from a Marxist standpoint questions of criticism of religion.

Among the magazine's authors were V. D. Bonch-Bruevich, N. K. Krupskaya, A. T. Lukachevsky (deputy editor), and activists of the League of Militant Atheists.

[2] The section "Chronicle" contained detailed information on the League of Militant Atheists' actions in various regions of the USSR.

The magazine developed the ideological foundations of mass atheist propaganda, directed primarily against Orthodoxy carried out through the lower organizations (cells) of the LMG.

After 1960, the USSR published the magazine Nauka i religiya [ru] (Russian: «Наука и религия», lit.