Anatoly Belov Explained

Anatoly Vasilyevich Belov (Russian: Анато́лий Васи́льевич Бело́в; 1927—1998[1]) was a Soviet religion scholar and atheist propagandist. He was a First Deputy Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR,[2] an expert on Adventism and one of the authors of the Atheistic Dictionary and Atheist Handbook.

Biography

During the Great Patriotic War he served in the Baltic Fleet.[3] After the war he worked in a newspaper.

He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov.

In 1965, at the Moscow Institute of National Economy named after G. V. Plekhanov, he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Philosophy on the topic "Seventh-day Adventists: (A critical analysis of eschatological dogma, religious peculiarities, adaptive tendencies and sect activity in the USSR)".[4]

In 1982 he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on the topic "A critical analysis of the ideology and politics of modern clerical anti-communism" (specialty 09.00.06 - scientific atheism).[5]

He worked as the head of the editorial staff on the subject of scientific atheism at the publishing house Politizdat.[6]

He was a chairman of the atheistic section of journalists under the Board of the Union of Journalists of the USSR.[7] Also, he was a member of the editorial board and author of articles in the Soviet popular science magazine Nauka i Religia .

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Notes and References

  1. http://religio.rhga.ru/authors/belov-a-v/ Белов А. В.
  2. Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР «О награждении Белова А. В. Почётной Грамотой Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР» // Ведомости Верховного Совета РСФСР. — 1987. — Т. 31. — Вып. 1497-1522. — С. 986
  3. [:ru:Наука и религия|Наука и религия]
  4. Белов, Анатолий Васильевич . Адвентисты седьмого дня: (Критический анализ эсхатологического вероучения, особенности культа, приспособленческих тенденций и деятельности секты в СССР): Автореф. дис. ... канд. филос. наук / Моск. ин-т нар. хозяйства им. Г. В. Плеханова. — Москва: [б. и.], 1965. — 16 с.
  5. Белов, Анатолий Васильевич. Критический анализ идеологии и политики современного клерикального антикоммунизма: дисс. ... д-ра филос. наук: 09.00.06. — Москва, 1982. — 396 с.
  6. Слово. — Вып. 7-12. — Изд-во "Книжная палата", 1986. — С. 52
  7. В мире книг. — № 1-6. — 1982. – С. 55