Philosophy in the Soviet Union
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Philosophy in the Soviet Union was officially confined to
From the beginning of
After the 1917
Philosophical and political struggles in the Soviet Union
Following the 1917
Otherwise,
During the Fifth
After the 20th Congress of the CPSU
Nevertheless, the conditions for creative philosophical work began to emerge in the mid-1950s, after the
Others
1) Vasily Nalimov (1910-1997) was interested mainly in the philosophy of probability and its biological, mathematical, and linguistic manifestations. He also studied the roles of gnosticism and mysticism in science. Nalimov is usually credited with proposing the concept of citation index.
2) The so-called "communist morality" was an important part of Soviet Union philosophy. According to Lenin and Stalin, morality should be subordinated to the ideology of proletarian revolution. Denying the validity of religion-based morality, they wrote: what is useful to us (the Soviet people) is moral, what is harmful to us is immoral. Morality is a weapon in class struggle. Party and Komsomol members were drilled to accept that position, and to act accordingly.[citation needed]
Publications and propaganda
The USSR published voluminous materials to disseminate its philosophical ideals and justifications. These took the form of academic or professional journals or notes in the pattern of peer-reviewed material. For example, the book First All-Union Conference on the Problems of Medical Deontology challenges the idea of a medical
See also
- Dialectical materialism
- Dialectical logic
- Fundamentals of Marxism–Leninism
- Historical Materialism
- Marxist sociology
- Marxist philosophy
- Russian philosophy
- Activity theory
- Western Marxism
Sources
- Wetter, Gustav A. (1958). Dialectical Materialism: A Historical and Systematic Survey of Philosophy in the Soviet Union. American Political Science Association.
- Sommerville, John (1946). Soviet Philosophy: A Study of Theory and Practice. New York Philosophical Library.
- Bakhurst, David (1991). Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy: From the Bolsheviks to Evald Ilyenkov. Cambridge University Press.
- V.A. Bazhanov. Philosophy in Post-Soviet Russia (1992 - 1997): Background, Present State, and Prospects // Studies in East European Thought, 1999, vol. 15, N 4, pp. 1–23.
External links
- Excerpts from Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy, From the Bolsheviks to Evald Ilyenkov (1991), David Bakhurst
- "Marxism-Thaxis" - Mechanists versus Dialecticians in early Soviet philosophy
- Russian and Soviet Women's Studies - Religion and Philosophy
- Gallery of Russian Thinkers edited by Dmitry Olshansky
- Ovcharenko, Victor (ed.). Bolshevistskaya Filosofiya (The Bolshevist Philosophy) (in Russian). Vol. 3 vols. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ISBN 5-01-000506-9. Archived from the original (DjVu, etc.) on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2011-01-20This monograph, the Plekhanov prize winner, presents the Soviet, i.e. Marxist-Leninist, understanding of the history of philosophy)
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