Fyodor Vasilyevich Konstantinov (russian: Фёдор Васи́льевич Константи́нов; 21 February 1901 – 8 December 1991) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

Marxist–Leninist Marxism is a left-wing to far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict and a dialect ...

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and academician.

Career

Born in to a peasant family, he joined the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

after the

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and became a participant of the

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. After becoming a member of the

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in 1918, he graduated from the

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in 1932 and earned his PhD in Philosophy in 1935. During his career he served as an academic secretary of the Institute of Philosophy of the

Communist Academy The Communist Academy (Russian: Коммунистическая академия, transliterated ''Kommunisticheskaya akademiya'') was a higher educational establishment and research institute based in Moscow. It included scientific institutes of ...

, Professor of Propaganda of the

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, and deputy director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He was editor-in-chief of '' Problems of Philosophy'' (1952–54) and ''Коммунист'' (''Communist'', 1958–62). He also acted as head of the Propaganda Department of the CC of the

CPSU "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first)Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

(Отделом пропаганды и агитации ЦК КПСС, 1955–58). He was a main author of the

historical materialism Historical materialism is the term used to describe Karl Marx's theory of history. Marx locates historical change in the rise of class societies and the way humans labor together to make their livelihoods. For Marx and his lifetime collaborat ...

(''Историч матери''ализм, 1951) and the ''Fundamentals of Marxist Philosophy'' (''Основы марксистской философии'', 1958), and chief editor of the ''Philosophical Encyclopedia'' (volumes 1–3, 1960–64). He served as director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1962–67). He was the founder and president of the Philosophical Society of the USSR (Философского общества СССР, 1971).

References

1901 births 1991 deaths 20th-century Russian philosophers People from Arzamassky Uyezd Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union candidate members Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Head of Propaganda Department of CPSU CC Institute of Red Professors alumni Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of the Red Star Academic journal editors Communist writers Russian philosophers Soviet philosophers {{Philosopher-stub Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery