Nauchno-ateisticheskaya biblioteka (Russian: Научно-атеистическая библиотека / Naučno-ateističeskaja biblioteka), Scientific Atheist LibraryAlso translated as Scientific-Atheistic Library or Scientific-Atheist Library or The Library of Scientific Atheism. is an academic atheistic Soviet series of books which was published from 1955 to 1990. It was founded at Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich's initiative and printed by various publishing houses. It brought out Marxist classics on religion and atheism. Until 1965, it was published by the Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Nauka), and from 1969 onward by the Mysl publishing house. Published volumes are (titles in English translation):livelib.ru: Научно-атеистическая библиотека
Volumes Lucian – Selected Atheistic Works – 1955 Arkady Lakomkin – Science and Religion on the Origin of Man – 1956 Ilya Furman – Our Earth – 1956 Sergey Benkliev – The Origin and Essence of Christianity – 1956 Denis Diderot – Selected Atheistic Works – 1956 Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach – Letters to Eugenia. Common Sense – 1956 Georgi Plekhanov – On Religion and the Church – 1957 Sylvain Maréchal – Selected Atheistic Works – 1958 Titus Lucretius Carus – On the Nature of Things – 1958 Uriel da Costa – On the Mortality of the Human Soul and Other Works – 1958 Abram Ranovich – On Early Christianity – 1959 Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov – Selected Atheistic Works – 1959 Ulrich von Hutten – Dialogues. Journalism. Letters – 1959 Nikolay Dobrolyubov – On Religion and the Church – 1960 Voltaire – God and Human Beings – 1961 Samuil Lozinsky (ru) – History of the Papacy – 1961 Constantin Volney – Selected Atheistic Works – 1962 Matvey Gukovsky (comp. & ed.) – Italian Humanists of the 15th Century on the Church and Religion – 1963 Moisei Belenky (ru) (ed.) – Critique of the Jewish Religion – 1962 Iosif Kryvelev (comp.) – The Origin of the Bible – 1964 Nadezhda Krupskaya – From the Atheist Legacy – 1964 Anatoly Lunacharsky – Why One Cannot Believe in God (s) – 1965 Vladimir Lenin – On Atheism, Religion, and the Church – 1969 Figures of the October Revolution on Religion and the Church – 1969 The Paris Communards on Religion and the Church – 1971 Anatoly Lunacharsky – On Atheism and Religion – 1972 Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich – Selected Atheistic Works – 1973 Natural Scientists and Atheism – 1973 Charles de Brosses – On Fetishism – 1973 Critique of Religious Sectarianism – 1974 Nikolay Nikolsky – Selected Works on the History of Religion – 1974 Religion and the Church in the History of Russia – 1975 A. I. Herzen on Atheism, Religion, and the Church – 1976 Figures of the International Workers’ Movement on Religion and the Church – 1976 Bernard de Fontenelle – Reflections on Religion, Nature, and Reason – 1979 English Freethought: J. Locke, J. Toland, A. Collins – 1981 Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Triumph of Life – 1982 D. I. Pisarev on Atheism, Religion, and the Church – 1984 The Petrashevsky Circle on Atheism, Religion, and the Church – 1986 K. Marx and F. Engels on Atheism, Religion, and the Church – 1986 A. N. Radishchev and the Decembrists: From the Atheistic Legacy of the First Russian Revolutionaries – 1986 The “Baptism of Rus'” in the Works of Russian and Soviet Historians – 1988 Apocrypha of the Early Christians: Research, Texts, Commentaries – 1989 Pyotr Lavrov – On Religion – 1989
An other Soviet book series was the Biblioteka ateističeskoj literatury (Библиотека атеистической литературы), the Library of Atheistic Literature.
See also Marxist–Leninist atheism
References and footnotes
Literature James Thrower: Marxist-Leninist 'Scientific Atheism' and the Study of Religion and Atheism in the USSR. (Religion and Reason, 25). 1983
External links Научно-атеистическая библиотека / Scientific Atheist Library (Russian) Научно-атеистическая библиотека / Scientific-Atheist Library (Russian)