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Three years later Nikolaj Daniel'son, a populist, completed the first foreign-language version of the first book of Marx' Capital and within six months about a thousand copies had been sold. In the middle of the 1870's, an 'academic' economist, N.  . Ziber, helped to spread Marx' economic ideas by teaching them in Kiev and writing articles in the journal Slovo, which to some extent influenced Plekhanov's later choices. But it was Plekhanov who first analyzed the Russian situation as a whole in Marxist terms, thereby earning renown as the Father of Russian Marxism. 1 His writings became the school for a whole generation of revolutionaries. At the beginning respected and venerated, then rejected and criticized, Plekhanov for long held the leadership of Russian Marxism, as its best-known 'Master'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007302500625,"sku":"NIN9780792310679","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52149416329489,"sku":"NLS9780792310679","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0792310675.jpg?v=1751395190"},{"product_id":"bibliographie-der-sowjetischen-philosophie-bibliography-of-soviet-philosophy-book-jm-bochenski-9789401196321","title":"Bibliographie der Sowjetischen Philosophie Bibliography of Soviet Philosophy","description":"Dieser siebente Band der Bibliographie erfasst die sowje- tische philosophische Literatur der Jahre 1964-1966 und enthalt: 1. Die Titel philosophischer Artikel aus den folgenden zeit- schriften: Voprosy filosofii, Filosofskie nauki, Kommunist, Uspechi Fizi eskich NaUk, Vestnik AN SSSR, vestnik MGU, Vestnik LGU, Voprosy psicholOgii. Ebenso sind einige Artikel aus weniger be- kannten Zeitschriften erfasst. 2. Die Titel philosophischer Bucher, die in dieser Zeit veroffentlicht wurden, mit eigenen Angaben der in Sammelwerken (sborniki) erschienenen Artikel. Die Literatur der Jahre 1967 ff.wird kunftig in den Studies in Soviet Thought laufend berichtet werden, zusammen mit den jeweiligen Verzeichnissen. Das Material fur den vorliegenden Band wurde von den Mitglie- dern des Instituts gesammelt. Besonderer Dank gilt P.J. Beemans, W.F. Boeselager, G.A. Collins (Boston College), D.D. Comey (Cornell), Anne Heidenreich, T.R. Payne und J.J. O'Rourke. Die endgultige Zusammenstellung des Materials besorgte Prof. T.J. Blakeley, Boston College. FOREWORD This seventh volume of the Bibliographie covers Soviet philosophie production during the period 1964-1966 and contains: 1. Titles of philosophie articles fram the following journals: Voprosy filosofii, Filosofskie nauki, Kommunist, Uspechi fizi es- kich nauk, Vestnik AN SSSR. vestnik MGU. Vestnik LGU, Voprosy psichologii. There are also occasional articles from lesser-known journals. 2. Titles of philosophie books published during the period, witn separate citation of the articles contained in the collective works (sborniki). Titles for 1967 ff. will appear on a current basis in Studie in Soviet Thought, supplemented by periodic indices.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52089217974545,"sku":"NLS9789401196321","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789401196321.jpg?v=1756906291"},{"product_id":"lukacs-today-book-i-rockmore-9789027726612","title":"Lukács Today","description":"As this century nears an end, it has become increasingly clear that Georg Lukacs is one of the most ta.1ented intellectuals of our time, not only in the Marxist tradition, but in general. Lukacs' name is well- known, and his views are increasingly attracting attention; but it cannot be said that his thought has so far been widely studied, or that it has been studied to the degree its place in the Marxist tradition warrants or its intrinsic interest demands. In the relatively short period since Lukacs' death, there have been a number of books and many articles devoted to his work. But, despite some efforts in that direction, there is still no adequate treatment of his work as a whole, surely a formidable task.  If, as I believe, Lukacs is the most important Marxist philosopher since Marx, and one of the most influential intellectual figures of this century, then surely his ideas are worth scrutinizing frequently and in detail. This is not the place to provide a general description either of Lukacs' life or of his work. Descriptions of his life, especially his early career, are widely available. For present purposes, it will suffice to provide only the barest mention of some biographical facts, together with a brief account of some items in his bibliography.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52121584926993,"sku":"NLS9789027726612","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789027726612.jpg?v=1757432380"},{"product_id":"soviet-theory-of-knowledge-book-je-blakeley-9789027700407","title":"Soviet Theory of Knowledge","description":"This book offers a complete survey of contemporary Soviet theory of knowledge. It is by no means meant to replace De Vries' excellent treatise on the same subject. Since De Vries depended mainly on the 'classics of Marxism' and the few contemporary Soviet works which were available in German translation, his account is at best an in­ troduction to the contemporary period. In a sense this book is com­ plementary to his: he presents the doctrines of the classics and criticizes them, this book recounts what came after and what is going on now. Epistemology and theory of knowledge are taken here as equivalent terms, representing the Soviet gnose%gija and teorija poznanija. No attempt to justify the existence of such a philosophical discipline will be attempted here. Even outside of this question of the legitimacy of epistemo­ logy, it is not easy to delimit the domain of its purvey. We have, therefore, taken it in a wider rather than narrow sense. 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The book was published by the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Su. The responsible editors were P. Pavelkin and G. Kurbatova and the text was prepared by eleven eminent Soviet philosophers (Y. F. Berestnev, M. A. Dynnik, P. N. Fedoseev, Ju. P. Francev, G. E. Glezerman, M. D. Kammari, F. V. Konstantinov, P. V. Kopnin, I. V. Kuznecov, M. M. Rozental', A. F. Siskin) under the direction of Konstantinov. As stated in the preface (p. 5) of the book, it was read in manuscript form by numerous scholars and professors of philosophy and then thoroughly discussed in three separate sessions (in the Academy of Sciences, and the Universities of Leningrad and Moscow). 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At the same time, the campaign against drunkenness, corruption, and sloppiness launched by Yuri Andropov was given a new impetus and the highest Party support. In April, 1986, the Chernobyl tragedy took place. The first reaction of the Soviet authorities was the usual one. The Soviet public was not properly informed about the disaster and its unprecedented peril. Millions of jubilant Soviet citizens crowded the squares and streets of Kiev and Minsk during the May Day festivities. We can only guess what the reaction of the Kremlin authorities would have been had not Swedish scientists traced and announced to the world the threatening level of radioactivity. Would the terms glasnost' and perestrojka have spread through the world press with such intensity and alacrity? 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I John Dewey  . . . philosophers do not grow like mushrooms, out of the earth; they are the outgrowth of their period, their nation, whose most subtle, delicate and invisible juices abound in the philosophical ideas., 2 Karl Marx Few issues are more heatedly debated in contemporary philosophy circles than that of con textual ism vs. foundationalism. The genesis for the debate was the publication in 1979 of Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, which announ ed the death of traditional philosophy. By traditional here is meant the quest for a certain or apodictic bedrock upon which an overall general theory or schema might be erected. This approach, for Rorty, characterized most previous philosophy, but especially the era from Descartes to Kant. 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Yet the consequences of Communism for philosophy and religion throughout the Soviet orbit are far from having the simplicity suggested by the stereotypes of a single, monolithic 'Marxism' and a consistent, crushing assault on the Church and on re- ligious faith. Unquestionably Marxism is the ruling philosophy throughout Eastern Europe. In the Soviet Union, 'Marxism-Leninism' or 'dialectical ma- terialism' is the official and the only tolerated philosophy, and most of the other countries of Eastern Europe follow the Soviet lead in philosophy as in other fields. But in the latter countries Marxism was imposed only after W orId War I, and its deVelopment has not always copied the Soviet model. Original thinkers in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary have thought their own way through the writings of Marx and his followers, and have arrived at Marxist positions which are consider- ably at variance with the Soviet interpretations - and often with each other. 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This phenomenon began in the third decade of our century as a reaction against the mechanistic and stereotyped image of Marx 1 characteristic of the Second International and of Stalinism. Lukacs, in History and Class Consciousness (1923), was one of the first to discover this new Marx, and he did so even before the most important 2 of the humanistic writings of the young Marx had been discovered. With the publication ofthese writings in 1932 - namely, the Economic 3 and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 - this new outlook was given enormous impetus. In these Manuscripts, Marx makes the human being the creator and the goal of alI reality. The objectification of the human essence through labor transforms both society and nature. Labor transforms its wor1d into a place which mirrors, unfolds, and confirms the human being. This humanism is a complex and many-faceted issue. 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Ihre Ausfiihrungen zeigen oft originelle Gedanken, die aber nicht immer hin- reichend kritisch reflektiert sind. 1m Gesamtbild treten dabei interessante Ergebnisse zutage, die auch fiir den westlichen Fachgelehrten von Interesse sein diirften. Die beriicksichtigten Arbeiten stammen von Philosophen aus der Sowjetunion. (Bine Ausnahme bildet nur der Artikel von P. O. Gropp (Leipzig) in Voprosy Filosofii, der in der Sowjetunion als Diskussions- beitrag gewertet wurde.) Da die Sowjetphilosophen sich iibereinstimmend zum dialektischen Materialismus bekennen, werden 'Sowjetphilosophie' und 'dialektischer Materialismus' stets als Synonyme benutzt. 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At the end of the nineteenth century he was the leader in putting Russian progressive culture in touch with Western Marxism, breaking away from Populism and, at the same time, resuming materialistic tradition within Russian progressive thought. Among Russian revolutionaries, a few others to be sure had been interested in Marx before Plekhanov. The translations of some of Marx' works into Russian show this clearly. In 1869 Mikhail Bakunin translated The Communist Manifesto. Three years later Nikolaj Daniel'son, a populist, completed the first foreign-language version of the first book of Marx' Capital and within six months about a thousand copies had been sold. In the middle of the 1870's, an 'academic' economist, N.  . Ziber, helped to spread Marx' economic ideas by teaching them in Kiev and writing articles in the journal Slovo, which to some extent influenced Plekhanov's later choices. But it was Plekhanov who first analyzed the Russian situation as a whole in Marxist terms, thereby earning renown as the Father of Russian Marxism. 1 His writings became the school for a whole generation of revolutionaries. At the beginning respected and venerated, then rejected and criticized, Plekhanov for long held the leadership of Russian Marxism, as its best-known 'Master'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52126949540113,"sku":"NLS9789401054560","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9789401054560.jpg?v=1757481430"},{"product_id":"russia-and-america-a-philosophical-comparison-book-wj-gavin-9789401015165","title":"Russia and America: A Philosophical Comparison","description":"In this year of bicentennial celebration, there will no doubt take place several cultural analyses of the American tradition. 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Sie besteht im wesentlichen in einer Bibliographie des jugoslawischen philosophischen Schrifttums seit 1945 und in einer Ubersicht sowohl des organisatori- schen Rahmens als auch der Literatur. Der Verfasser bereitet jetzt, auf Grund der hier zusammengefaBten Ergebnisse, eine umfassende Mono- graphie der genannten Art vor. Die Veroffentlichung erfolgt in der Hoffnung, daB diese meines Wissens erste und bisher einzige Einfuhrung in den jugoslawischen Marxismus- Leninismus auch den anderen Forschern auf diesem Gebiet, sowohl in Jugoslawien als auch im Ausland, nutzlich sein durfte. Es ist fur mich eine angenehme Pflicht jenen Personen und Institutionen zu danken, ohne deren Hilfe dieses Buch nicht Mtte geschrieben werden konnen. 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This synopsis of Principles of Marxism- Leninism 1 (published at the end of 1959 and widely distributed in the Soviet Union) appears as a sequel to that of the Principles of Marxist Philosphy which I published in 1959 as The Dogmatic Principles of Soviet Philosphy. This book is a corporate work, done by some forty Soviet philosophers, sociologists, economists, Party-theoreticians and propa- gandists, under the direction ofO. V. Kuusinen (member of the Praesidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union). Except for a few clarifications, we have restricted ourselves to pre- senting the most important parts of the original text in an original translation which provides the material, in an authentic and handy 2 form, for our Institute's courses in Sovietology. In comparison to the other parts, the philosophical portions (Sections 1 and 2) have been held to a minimum since they repeat, for the most part, material which is already available in the synopsis of the Principles of Marxist Philosophy. I wish to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for their support which has made possible the research of our Institute as well as the preparation of the present work. J. M. BOCHENSKI 1 The original Russian title is: Osnovy marksizma-leninizma. 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