Semyon Alekseyevich Kamenev (; 189514 March 1938) was an educator, professor, writer, and Soviet propagandist of

atheism Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the Existence of God, existence of Deity, deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the ...

. Semyon Kamenev was born in the village of Semyonovka, Kursk Uyezd,

Kursk Governorate Kursk Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire, which existed from 1796 to 1928 with its capital in Kursk. Administrative divisions As of 1914, Kursk Governorate included 15 uyezds. * Belgorods ...

. He received a higher education. He worked as a research fellow at the Central Research Institute of Elementary School. He was a member of the editorial board of

Ateist Ateist (; lit. «Atheist») was an antireligious monthly journal in Russian, which was published from 1922 to 1930 in the RSFSR and the USSR. Ateist was established in 1921 in Moscow, on the initiative of Pyotr Krasikov, P. A. Krasikov and Ivan S ...

, an anti-theistic monthly journal. Kamenev was a member of the RCP(b). He lived in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

at 2 Gagarinsky Lane, apartment 2. During the

Great Purge The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (), also known as the Year of '37 () and the Yezhovshchina ( , ), was a political purge in the Soviet Union that took place from 1936 to 1938. After the Assassination of Sergei Kirov, assassination of ...

, on 17 December 1937, Kamenev was arrested and accused by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union of participating in an anti-Soviet organization. On 14 March 1938, Kamenev was shot at the

Kommunarka shooting ground The Kommunarka firing range (), former dacha of secret police chief Genrikh Yagoda, was used as a burial ground from 1937 to 1941. Executions may have been carried out there by the NKVD during the Great Terror and until the war started; altern ...

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populate ...

. Following

de-stalinization De-Stalinization () comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and Khrushchev Thaw, the thaw brought about by ascension of Nik ...

, on 12 May 1956, the Military Collegium of the

Supreme Court of the Soviet Union The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, officially the Supreme Court of the USSR () was the highest court of the Soviet Union during its existence. It was established on November 23, 1923 and was dissolved on January 2, 1992. The Supreme Court of ...

rehabilitated him.РГБ
/ref>

Work

In Russian * «Советская трудовая школа» (Soviet Labor School)/ С. А. Каменев. - Ростов н/Д : Севкавкнига, 1925. - 372 с.; * «Школа и организация детской среды» (School and Organization of the Children's Environment): С прил. схем и указателя литературы / С. А. Каменев. - Ростов н/Д : Буревестник, 1925. - 55 с. : схем.; * «Товарищи» (Comrades) : Первая рабочая книга после букваря... / С. А. Каменев, М. Б. Темкин. - Ростов н/Д : Севкавкнига, 1927 (1-я госуд. тип. Донполиграфбума). - 148, III : ил.; 26х17 см. - (Учебники и учебные пособия для школ Северного Кавказа). * «Л. Н. Толстой, как педагог» (L. N. Tolstoy, as a Teacher) : Речь на публичном заседании Науч.-педагог. о-ва при Сев.-Кав. гос. ун-те по случаю 100-летия со дня рождения Л. Н. Толстого (1828-1928 гг.) / С. А. Каменев. - Ростов н/Д : �. и. 1928. - 17 с.; * «Церковь и просвещение в России» (Church and Enlightenment in Russia): (Очерки). - Москва : науч. общество Атеист, 1928 (Сергиев : тип. "Шестой октябрь"). - 140 с., ** «Церковь и просвещение в России» (Church and Enlightenment in Russia) / С. А. Каменев. - 2-е изд., испр. и доп. - �осква: Атеист, 929(Л. : госуд. тип. им. Евг. Соколовой). - 162 с. : схем.; ** «Церковь и просвещение в России» (Church and Enlightenment in Russia) / С. А. Каменев. - 3-е изд., испр. и доп. - Москва : Безбожник, 1930 (Рязань : Рязтип. "Мосполиграфа"). - 202 с. : ил.; * «Будь готов!» (Be Prepared!) : Первая рабоч. книга после букваря... / Каменев С. А., Темкин М. Б. - Ростов н/Д : Северный Кавказ, 1930 (гостип. им. Коминтерна Севкавкрайполиграфобъединения). - 152 с. : ил., портр.; 25х18 см. - (Учебники и учебные пособия для школ Северного Кавказа). * «Социалистическое соревнование как метод воспитания» ( Socialist Emulation as a Method of Education) / С. А. Каменев. - Москва : Работник просвещения, 1930. - 95 с.; 21 см. - (Вопросы марксистской педагогики/ Под ред. С. Фридмана) * «Против методического прожектерства» (Against Methodological Projection) / С. А. Каменев. - Москва ; Ленинград : Гос. учеб.-педагог. изд-во, 1932 (М. : тип. "Образцовая"). - 40 с.; 20х13 см. - (Библиотечка "Решение ЦК ВКП(б) о начальной и средней школе в действии"). * «О работе классного руководителя» (About the Work of the Class Teacher) : Стенограмма доклада проф. С. А. Каменева на собрании учителей г. Москвы, организованного ВКИПом 10/ V 35 / Центр. науч.-иссл. ин-т педагогики при ВКИПе. - �осква: �. и.

935 Year 935 ( CMXXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Arnulf I ("the Bad") of Bavaria invades Italy, crossing through the Upper Adige (modern Tyrol). He proceeds ...

- 21 с.; * «Педологическая лженаука в "трудах" Басова» (Pedological Pseudoscience in the "Works" of Basov) / С. А. Каменев. - Москва : Гос. учеб.-педагог. изд., 1937 (шк. ФЗУ треста "Полиграфкнига"). - Обл., 32 с.; * Материалы Первого краевого съезда районных инспекторов соцвоса Северо-Кавказского края -9 февраля 1926 г./ Под общ. ред. С. А. Каменева ; Сев.-Кав. краев. отд. нар. образования. Крайсоцвос. - Ростов н/Д : С.-К. крайоно, 1926. - 93 с.; * Избранные педагогические высказывания / Н. А. Добролюбов ; С вводной статьей и примеч. С. А. Каменева ; Под общ. ред. М. П. Орахелашвили, А. П. Пинкевича и др. - Москва : Гос. учеб. педагог. изд-во, 1936. - 387 с. фронт.; 22 см. - (Педагогическая библиотека). * Избранные педагогические высказывания / Н. Г. Чернышевский ; С вводной статьей и прим. С. А. Каменева ; Под общ. ред. М. П. Орахелашвили, А. П. Пинкевича, С. А. Каменева и др. - Москва : Учпедгиз, 1936. - 208 с., 1 л. портр.; * Хрестоматия по истории педагогики : Для высш. педагог. учеб. заведений / Под общ. ред. С. А. Каменева. - 2-е изд. - Москва : Гос. учеб.-педагог. изд-во, 1935-1938. - 7 т. In Southern Altai * Ишмекчи-ле крестьян кижи качанда белен бол! / С. Каменев. - Улалу : Ойрот обл. ВКП(б) обкомы чыгарган, 1927. - 36 с. ;

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kamenev, Semyon 1895 births 1938 deaths People from Kursk Governorate 20th-century Russian writers Historians of Christianity Russian historians of religion Soviet atheists Russian educators Soviet educators Russian atheism activists Soviet rehabilitations