Philosophical Sovietology: The Pursuit of a Science

by Helmut Dahm, J.E. Blakeley, George L. Kline

Book Overview

On February 24-25, 1956, in a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita S. Khrushchev made his now famous speech on the crimes of the Stalin era. That speech marked a break with the past and it marked the end of what J.M. Bochenski dubbed the "dead period" of Soviet philosophy. Soviet philosophy changed abruptly after 1956, especially in the area of dialectical materialism. Yet most philosophers in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401082898
• ISBN13: 9789401082891
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"