Atheistic Dictionary (russian: Атеисти́ческий слова́рь) is a one-volume

reference Reference is a relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. The first object in this relation is said to ''refer to'' the second object. It is called a '' name'' ...

work devoted to various aspects of

religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural ...

and

atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

. It contains more than 2500 terms.

History of creation

The dictionary was the result of many years of cooperation of scientists from various scientific and educational institutions of the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

and the socialist countries. It was based on the word list, compiled by the candidate of historical sciences V.F. Zybkovets with V.V. Zybkovets, which has been widely discussed by the scientific community of

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and

Kiev Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Ky ...

—

Institute of Scientific Atheism Institute of Scientific Atheism (russian: Институт Научного Атеизма) was a research organization founded in 1964 in Moscow for the coordination of research in atheism conducted research institutes of the Academy of Sciences ...

Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee and its Kiev branch, Department of history and theory of

scientific atheism Scientific atheism may refer to: * Marxist–Leninist atheism, a Communist doctrine and philosophical science formerly promoted in the Eastern Bloc * New Atheism, a 21st-century atheist movement * Relationship between religion and science, ...

, Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, Department of history and theory of

KSU named after Taras Shevchenko, Department of scientific atheism, ethics and aesthetics

Herzen University Herzen University, or formally the Russian State Pedagogical University in the name of A. I. Herzen (russian: Российский государственный педагогический университет имени А. И. Герце� ...

. The final wordlist was I. N. Yablokov.

References

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External links

* Books about atheism Dictionaries by subject 1983 non-fiction books Anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union {{atheism-book-stub