title: The concept of “scientific atheism”: The history of its construction and introduction into philosophy and political practice (1954–1964)
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metadata.value: Shakhnovich, Marianna M.
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metadata.value: 2022-11-10T12:23:41Z
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metadata.value: 2022-11-10T12:23:41Z
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metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Shakhnovich M. M. The concept of “scientific atheism”: The history of its construction and introduction into philosophy and political practice (1954–1964). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2022, vol. 38, issue 3, pp. 436–448. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.314 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.314
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38509
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metadata.value: The main purpose of the article is to reveal the socio-historical context of the emergence of
  the concept of “scientific atheism”, designed to solve ideological and political problems in the
  USSR in 1954–1964. The article shows how the concept of “scientific atheism” turns into a
  conceptual category, is filled with new content, forms an appropriate discourse and becomes a tool that produces socially significant meanings used in the practice of ideological production
  during the period of building socialism in the USSR. The author demonstrates how the
  understanding of atheism that existed in previous Marxist literature as a philosophical criticism
  of religion, based on the natural sciences and philosophical materialism and connected
  with the study of the historical forms of religion and its modern features, was rejected. Such an
  understanding of atheism did not satisfy the current political demand associated with the new
  tasks of communist construction. The article shows that a special role in the construction of
  the ideological component of the concept of “scientific atheism” in the early 1960s was played
  by I. D. Pantskhava, head of the Department of History and Theory of Atheism at Moscow
  State University, and also the secretary of the Central Committee L. F. Ilyichev, who headed the
  Ideological Commission of the Central Committee of the CPSU, which, in the wake of a new
  anti-religious campaign, initiated the development of practical recommendations in the field
  of atheistic upbringing of the population, among which the need to form the theoretical content
  of scientific atheism as an independent philosophical discipline aimed at solving urgent
  political problems stood out. The article introduces previously unknown archival materials
  into academic circulation, shedding light on the 1964 discussion about the features of Marxist
  atheism and the subject of “scientific atheism”.
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metadata.value: The research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grant no. 21-11-43036
  “Scientific Atheism as an Ideological Construct, an Educational Project and an Element of the Soviet Mode
  of Life (1950s–1980s)”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 38; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Marxist atheism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: scientific atheism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: natural science propaganda
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: socialism in the USSR
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metadata.value: The concept of “scientific atheism”: The history of its construction and introduction into philosophy and political practice (1954–1964)
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