Anatoly Belov

Anatoly Vasilyevich Belov (Анато́лий Васи́льевич Бело́в; 1927—1998) 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, an expert on Adventism and one of the authors of the Atheistic Dictionary and Atheist Handbook. During the Great Patriotic War he served in the Baltic Fleet. After the war he worked in the newspaper. 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)". 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). He worked as the head of editorial staff in scientific atheism at the publishing house Politizdat. He was a chairman of the atheistic section of journalists under the Board of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. Also he was a member of editorial board and author of articles in Soviet popular science magazine «Nauka i Religia» (). Certificate of honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR (1987) Белов А. В., Певзнер А. М. О праздниках престольных. — М.: Знание, 1960. — 40 с. (Брошюры-лекции. Серия 2. Философия/ Всесоюз. о-во по распространению полит. и науч. знаний; 4). Белов А. В., Певзнер А. М. Тайны "святых мест". — М.: Госполитиздат, 1961. — 80 с. Как провести занятие по научному атеизму: Методическое пособие. / А. В. Белов, А. П. Каждан, П. Ф. Колоницкий и др. — М.: Московский рабочий, 1963. — 96 с. Белов А. В., Никоненко С. С. Наука против суеверий. — М.: Воениздат, 1963. — 123 с. (Научно-популярная б-ка). Белов А. В. Адвентисты. — М.: Наука, 1964. — 159 с.