Aleksandr Okulov


Alexandr Fedorovich Okulov is a Soviet and Russian philosopher, specialist in the history of Marxist philosophy, atheism and social philosophy. Doctor of Philosophy, Professor. One of the authors of the "Atheist Dictionary".

Background

He graduated from the Communist Institute of Journalism, he was also a graduate of GA in the department of history of philosophy..
In the 1930s and 1940s, he worked as editor of the political department of MTS in the Azov-Black Sea region, the editor of the regional and regional newspaper in the Far East, the secretary of the regional committee of the Sakhalin and Khabarovsk regional committee of the party.
Deputy Director of the IF of the USSR. In 1961-1962 gg. - The editor in chief of the journal "Problems of Philosophy". From 1964 to 1978 - Director of the Institute of Scientific Atheism.
Main research areas: the history of philosophy in Soviet society and foreign philosophy; the philosophical and atheistic legacy of Lenin, the problems of modern clericalism, social, philosophical and sociological problems of religious studies.
He participated in the creation of collective scientific works: "History of Philosophy", "History of the USSR philosophy", Proc. "Questions of scientific atheism", "Scientific-atheistic library" textbook "scientific atheism", and others.

Works