Scientific Atheist Library

Nauchno-ateisticheskaya biblioteka (Russian: Научно-атеистическая библиотека / Naučno-ateističeskaja biblioteka), Scientific Atheist Library 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):

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).