Background
FRANTSEV, Yuriy was born in 1903.
FRANTSEV, Yuriy was born in 1903.
1924 graduated Leningrad University.
1931-1937 associate, 1937-1945 Director, Museum of the History, of Religion, USSR Academy of Science. 1945 Head, Leningrad Department, Institute of History, USSR Academy of Science. 1945-1949 Director, Institute of International Relations, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1949-1952 Head, Press Deputy, USSR Minister of Foreign Affairs. 1953-1957 member, Editorial Board, newspaper “Pravda”. 1955 Executive Editor, volume I “Vsemirnaya istoriya” (World History).
1957-1959 Deputy Chief Editor, “Pravda”. Since 1959 member Editor Board, journal “Vestnik Academy of Sciences USSR” (Herald of the USSR Academy of Sciences). Specialist in the origin of religion, atheism and 20th c. bourgeois sociology.
Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.
Member, Communist Party, since 1940.
Strong communist party can create a new and better society with neither rich nor poor.
Member, Communist Party, since 1940.