The book of the candidate of philosophical sciences I Ya. Kanterov is devoted to exposing the main directions in the falsification of Marxist atheism and atheistic education by bourgeois-clerical ideologists. The work shows the reasons for the change in the tactics of bourgeois-clerical propaganda in the context of the growing authority of the USSR, the countries of the socialist community, the growing influence of the Marxist-Leninist worldview.