Soviet Philosophy
from Progress Publishers:
Selected Bibliography, 1968-1990 (1) *

compiled by Ralph Dumain

Note: Name as indicated on title page leads [with Library of Congress designation in brackets].

GENERAL PHILOSOPHY (ontology, epistemology, logic, semantics, etc.)

Basin, Yevgeny. Semantic Philosophy of Art, translated from the Russian by Christopher English.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1979.
Can also be borrowed from archive.org.
On this site:
    Contents
    Chapter V. The Neo-Realistic Philosophy of Symbolism and Art: A. N. Whitehead

Batalov, E[duard]. The Philosophy of Revolt: Criticism of Left Radical Ideology; translated by Katharine Judelson; Russian text edited by T. Dragnysh.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975. 246 pp.

Civilisation and the Historical Process, translated by Cynthia Carlile.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983. Description: 397 p.
Can be borrowed from archive.org.

Civilisation, Science, Philosophy: Theme of the 17th World Congress of Philosophy (Montreal, August 1983). Moscow: “Social Sciences Today” Editorial Board, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1983. (Problems of the Contemporary World; no. 111)
On this site: “Cognition in the Context of Culture” by Vladislav Lektorsky.

Dubrovsky, David [Dubrovskii, David Izrailevich]; translated from the Russian by Vladimir Stankevich.
The problem of the ideal: the nature of mind and its relationship to the brain and social medium.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988.
Extracts on this site.

The Future of society; a critique of modern bourgeois philosophical and socio-political conceptions; edited by Murad Saifulin.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1973.
Can be borrowed from archive.org.

Gorsky, D.P. [Gorskii, D. P.]; translated from the Russian by Sergei Syrovatkin.
Definition: logico-methodological problems.
Moscow: Progress, 1981.

Gorsky, Dmitri [Gorskii, D. P.]; translated by Campbell Creighton.
Generalisation and cognition.
Moscow: Progress Publishers; Chicago: Imported by Imported Publications, 1987.

Gurevich, Pavel. Humanism: Traditions and Paradoxes.
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1989.

Ilyenkov, E.V. [Il'enkov, Eval'd Vasil'evich]; translated from the Russian by H. Campbell Creighton.
Dialectical logic: essays on its history and theory.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977.

Ilyenkov, E.V. [Il'enkov, Evald Vasil'evich]; translated from the Russian by Sergei Syrovatkin.
The dialectics of the abstract and the concrete in Marx's Capital.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982.

Karl Marx and Modern Philosophy: Collection of Articles
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1968.
(Contents page also on this site)
     F. V. Konstantinov: Marxism and Contemporaneity. Translated by David Skvirsky 5
     L. F. Ilyichev: Marx and Historical Prospects of Mankind. Translated by David Skvirsky 23
     M. B. Mitin: Marx, Lenin and the Problem of Man. Translated by David Skvirsky 47
     B. M. Kedrov: Karl Marx and the Unity of the Natural Sciences and the Humanities. Translated by David Skvirsky 79
     V. S. Bibler: Hegel, Marx and the Problem of Transformations in the Logical Structure. Translated by Julius Katzer 107 [On this site]
     M. A. Lifshitz: Karl Marx and Present-Day Culture. Translated by Bryan Bean 143
     T. I. Oizerman: Marx, Hegel and Contemporary Bourgeois Philosophy. Translated by Leo Lempert 183
     H. S. Batishchev: Primary and Secondary Figures in the Process of Alienation According to Marx. Translated by Julius Katzer 213
Can be borrowed from archive.org.

Karl Marx and Our Time: Articles and Speeches. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983.

A complete waste, including Oizerman and Kedrov:

Publishers’ Note 7
Yuri Andropov. Karl Marx’s Teaching and Some of the Problems in the Building of Socialism in the USSR 9
Boris Ponomarev. Marx’s Doctrine—a Guide to Action 36
Mikhail Zimyanin. Karl Marx’s Teaching Lives On and Triumphs 60
Pyotr Fedoseyev. Karl Marx and the Dialectics of Our Time 76
Richard Kosolapov. Marx Is Always Abreast of the Times 118
Vadim Zagladin, Stanislav Menshikov, Ivan Frolov. Karl Marx and the Emancipation of Man as a World Historical Process 160
Theodor Oizerman. A revolutionary Landmark in the Development of Social Thought 186
Bonifati Kedrov. Marx and Science 195

Kuznetsov, B. G. [Boris Grigor'evich] Philosophy of optimism; translated from the Russian by Ye. D. Khakina and V. L. Sulima.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977.
Can be borrowed from archive.org.

Lektorsky, V.A. [Lektorskii, V. A.]; translated by Sergei Syrovatkin.
Subject, object, cognition.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984.
Available also in HTML format on ghost web at leninist.biz.
Can also be borrowed from archive.org.
See also extracts on this site.

Marxist Dialectics Today, 2nd ed., edited by P. V. Fedoseev et al.
Moscow: “Social Sciences Todayˮ Editorial Board, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1979.
(Problems of the Contemporary World; 30.) (1st ed., 1974.)
     Present-Day Problems of the Theory of Materialist Dialectics 5
     P. Fedoseyev: Leninism Versus Subjectivism and Objectivism 27
     P. Kopnin: Lenin's Plans for Elaborating the Theory of Materialist Dialectics 48
     B. Kedrov: The Marxist-Leninist View of Dialectics as the Theory of Knowledge and Logic 83
     M. Rozental: How Philosophical Categories Develop 108
     I. Frolov: Organic Determinism, Teleology and the Purposive Approach in Research 131
     E. Ilyenkov: Lenin and the Hegelian Conception of Thinking 155  [on this site]
     D. Gorsky: Advance Reflection of Reality at the Level of Human Cognition 174
Can be borrowed from archive.org.

Marxist-Leninist Philosophy: Diagrams, Tables, Illustrations by T. Vlasova, edited by E. Ivanov, designed by Vadim Belkin, translated by Galina Sdobnikova. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987.

Mikhailov, F. T. [Feliks Trofimovich]; translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish.
The riddle of the self.
Moscow: Progress Publishers; New York: International Publishers, 1980.

Moskvichov, L[ev] N[ikolaevich]. The End of Ideology Theory: Illusions and Reality: Critical Notes on a Fashionable Bourgeois Conception, translated from the Russian by Jim Riordan. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974.

Naletov, Igor [Naletov, I. Z. (Igor' Zinov'evich)]; translated from the Russian by Vladimir Stankevich.
Alternatives to positivism [on this site].
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984.
Also in HTML format on ghost web at leninist.biz.

Panov, Victor G.; translated by H. Campbell Creighton.
Emotions, Myths and Theories.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1985.

Pavilionis, Rolandas; translated by H. Campbell Creighton.
Meaning and conceptual systems.
Moscow: Progress, 1990.
Up through Chapter 2.1 only in HTML on ghost web at leninist.biz.

Petrosyan, M. Humanism: Its Philosophical, Ethical and Sociological Aspects, translated by Bryan Bean.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972.

The Philosophical Conception of Man.
[Papers from the 17th World Congress of Philosophy, Brighton, 1988]
Comp. I.S. Kulikova & V.V. Mshvenieradze; translated by H. Campbell Creighton. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988.
See "Man as the Object of Cognition in Arts Subjects" by L. I. Novikova.

Philosophy in the USSR: problems of dialectical materialism.
Translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1977.
Authors: Fedoseyev, Oizerman, Melukhin, Ilyenkov, Lektorsky, Sheptulin, Bogomolov, Gorsky, Leontyev, Kursanov, Orudzhev, Kelle.
     Foreword 5
     Part One: GENERAL METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
     Scientific Cognition Today, Its Specific Features and Problems. By. P. N. Fedoseyev 7
     The Problem of the Scientific Philosophical World-Outlook. By T. I. Oizerman 22
     Part Two: DIALECTICS OF BEING AND CONSCIOUSNESS
     The Dialectical-Materialist Conception of Matter. By S. T. Melukhin 43
     The Concept of the Ideal. By E. V. Ilyenkov 71 [on this site]
     The Dialectic of Subject and Object and Some Problems of the Methodology of Science. By V. A. Lektorsky 100
     A Contribution to the Question of the Categories of Materialist Dialectics. By A. P. Sheptulin 113
     Dialectical Contradiction and Its Solution. Concerning the Central Problem of Dialectical Logic. By A. S. Bogomolov 134
     Part Three: PROBLEMS OF THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
     Social Practice and Scientific Knowledge. By D. P. Gorsky 157
     Activity and Consciousness. By A.N. Leontyev 180
     The Problem of Truth in the Philosophy of Marxism. By G. A. Kursanov 203
     Some Problems of Dialectical Logic. By Z. M. Orudzhev 235
     Ideology as a Phenomenon of Social Consciousness. By V. Z. Kelle 258
PDF of book also at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET.

Rakitov, Anatoly. [Rakitov, Anatolii Il'ich]; translated by H. Campbell Creighton.
Historical knowledge: a systems-epistemological approach.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987.

Science and Morality, translated from the Russian. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975. [On ghost web]
     Introduction 7
     Section I: Introduction 19
     A. Alexandrov: A Scientific Approach to Morality 21
     G. Pospelov: Man and the Moral Aspects of Scientific Progress 50
     Section II: Introduction 65
     V. Loginov: Scientific Politics and Morality 67
     E. Solovyov: Knowledge, Faith and Morality 88
     A. Arsenyev: The Relationship Between Science and Morality (Philosophical Aspects) 130 [on this site]
     O. Drobnitsky: Scientific Truth and Moral Good 188
     Section III: Introduction 219
     V. Tolstykh Galileo Versus Galileo 221
     A. Gulyga Crisis—Moral Or Social? 240
     E. V. Ilyenkov: Humanism and Science [on this site]

Sogomonov, Y. [I'U'rii' Vaganovich]; Landesman, P. [Petr Abramovich] Nihilism today; translated from the Russian by David Skvirsky.
Moscow: Progress, 1977.
Better copy here. Also in HTML on ghost web at archive.org.

GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS & TEXTBOOKS (somewhat different from the usual boilerplate)

ABC of Dialectical and Historical Materialism
by B.M. Boguslavsky, V.A. Karpushin, A.I. Rakitov, V.Y. Chertikhin, G.I. Ezrin; translated by Lenina Ilitskaya.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978.

Kharin, Yu. A.
Fundamentals of Dialectics.
Moscow: Progress, 1981.

Rakitov, Anatoly. [Rakitov, Anatolii Il'ich]; translated by H. Campbell Creighton.
The Principles of Philosophy.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1989.

Yakhot, O.
What Is Dialectical Materialism.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1965.
Individual chapters in HTML can be found here:

The Subject Matter of Marxist Philosophy, first talk
What Is Matter and in What Forms Does It Exist?, third talk
Matter and Consciousness, fourth talk

Zakharov, F. I.
Philosophical Foundations of Scientific Socialism.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1985.

LOGIC

Getmanova, Alexandra. Logic, translated from the Russian by Stephen Smith. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1989.

PSYCHOLOGY

Mikhailov, F. T. [Feliks Trofimovich]; translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish.
The riddle of the self.
Moscow: Progress Publishers; New York: International Publishers, 1980.

Porshnev, B. F. [Boris Fedorovich] Leninist theory of revolution and social psychology.
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1970.

Psychological research in the U.S.S.R.; edited by A. Leontyev, A. Luriya, A. Smirnov; translated from the Russian.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1966.

Roset, I. [Rozet, I. M. (Isaak Moiseevich)]; translated from the Russian by Sergei Savchenko.
The psychology of phantasy: an experimental and theoretical investigation into the intrinsic laws of productive mentality.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984.

SOCIOLOGY

A History of Classical Sociology, edited by Prof I. S. Kon, translated by H. Campbell Creighton.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1989. (Russian original, 1979.)
Also at archive.org.

Frantsov, G. P. [I'U'rii' Pavlovich] Philosophy and sociology; translated from the Russian by Yuri Sdobnikov.
Also available in HTML on ghost web from leninist.biz.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975.

Osipov, G. [Gennadii Vasil'evich] Sociology: problems of theory and method; translated from the Russian by David Myshne, edited by Jim Riordan.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969.

SCIENCE IN GENERAL

Chepikov, M. G. [Chepikov, Mikhail Grigor�evich]; translated from the Russian by Yuri Sdobnikov.
The integration of science.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978.

Ilyin, V.; Kalinkin, A.; translated by Sergei Syrovatkin.
The Nature of Science: an Epistemological Analysis.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988.

Lenin and modern natural science.
Russian text edited by M. E. Omelyanovsky; translated from the Russian by S. Syrovatkin; edited by K. E. Russell.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1978.

PHYSICS

Einstein and the philosophical problems of 20th-century physics.
Translated from the Russian by Sergei Syrovatkin.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983.
PDF of book also at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET.

Gribanov, D. P. [Dmitrii Prokhorovich]; translated from the Russian by H. Campbell Creighton.
Albert Einstein's philosophical views and the theory of relativity.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987.
(Akademiia nauk SSSR)
PDF of book also at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET.

Omelyanovsky, M. E. [Omel’ianovskyi, M. E. (Mykhailo Erazmovych)].
Dialectics in modern physics.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1979.

Philosophical problems of elementary-particle physics, edited by I.V. Kuznets︡ov and M.E. Omelʹyanovskiĭ, translated by A. Sen and R.N. Sen.
Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1965.
PDF of book also at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET.

There is also a book with the same title, translated by George Yankovsky. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1968.

Svechnikov, G. A. [Gennadii Aleksandrovich]; translated from the Russian by George Yankovsky.
Causality and the relation of states in physics.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1971.

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY (GENERAL)

Oizerman, Theodore [Oizerman, Teodor Il'ich]; translated from the Russian by Dmitri Beliavsky.
Dialectical materialism and the history of philosophy: essays on the history of philosophy.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982.
Extracts on this site.
PDF of book at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET.

Oizerman, T.I. [Oizerman, Teodor Il'ich]; translated by H. Campbell Creighton.
The main trends in philosophy: a theoretical analysis of the history of philosophy.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988.
PDF of book also at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET.
Contents page on this site.

Oizerman, T.I. [Oizerman, Teodor Il'ich]; from the Russian by Yuri Sdobnikov.
The making of the Marxist philosophy.
Moscow: Progress, 1981.
Contents only on ghost web at leninist.biz.
Book can be borrowed from archive.org.

Oizerman, T.I.; Bogomolov, A. S.; translated by H. Campbell Creighton.
Principles of the theory of historical process in philosophy.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1986.
Contents page on this site.

Oizerman, Theodore [Oizerman, Teodor Il'ich]; translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish.
Problems of the history of philosophy (Excerpts on this site).
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1973.
PDF of book at archive.org & BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET.

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY (SPECIAL TOPICS)

Bogomolov, A. S. History of Ancient Philosophy: Greece and Rome; translated by Vladimir Stankevich.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1985. 349 pp. (Guides to the Social Sciences)
PDF of book also at BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET.

Losev, A. F. [Aleksei Fedorovich]. Aristotle, translated from the Russian by Angelia Graf. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1990.

Losev, A. F. [Aleksei Fedorovich]. Plato, translated from the Russian by Patricia Beryozkina. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1990.

Nersesyants, V.S. [Vladik Sumbatovich] Political thought of ancient Greece; translated from the Russian by Vladimir Stankevich.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1986.

AMERICAN STUDIES

Batalov, Eduard. The American Utopia, translated from the Russian by Dmitry Belyavsky.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1985.
From leninist,biz.
Excerpts on this site.

Mendelson, Maurice. Life and work of Walt Whitman: a Soviet view; translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield; illustrated by G. Dauman.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976.

Pokrovsky, Nikita. Henry Thoreau, translated from the Russian by Sergei Syrovatkin.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1989.

REFERENCE

A Concise Psychological Dictionary.
Ed. A.V. Petrovsky & M.G. Yaroshevsky.
Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1987.

A Dictionary for Believers and Nonbelievers.
Translated by Catherine Judelson.
Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1989.

A Dictionary of Philosophy.
Ed. by M. Rosenthal [Rozental, M. M. (Mark Moiseevich), 1906-1975] & P. Yudin.
Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1967.

Handbook of Philosophy edited and adapted by Howard Selsam from the Short Philosophic Dictionary by Mark Moisevich Rosenthal and Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin.
New York: International Publishers, 1949.

Dictionary of Philosophy.
Edited by I. Frolov; Translated & ed. Murad Saifulin & Richard R. Dixon [from 4th Russian ed. 1980].
Moscow: Progress Publishers [2nd rev. ed.]; New York: International Publishers [1st ed.], 1984.

A Dictionary of Ethics.
Ed. by A.V. Ado et al.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1990.

Logic Made Simple: A Dictionary.
By A. Getmanova, M. Panov, V. Petrov; translated by Sergei Syrovatkin.
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1990.

PUBLICATIONS OF OTHER SOVIET PUBLISHING HOUSES

Civilisation, Science, Philosophy: Theme of the 17th World Congress of Philosophy (Montreal, August 1983). Moscow: “Social Sciences Today” Editorial Board, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1983. (Problems of the Contemporary World; no. 111)
On this site: “Cognition in the Context of Culture” by Vladislav Lektorsky.

Gurevich, Pavel. Humanism: Traditions and Paradoxes.
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1989.

Kochina, Pelageya. Love and Mathematics: Sofya Kovalevskaya, edited by A. Yu. Ishlinsky & Z. K. Sokolovskaya, translated from the Russian by Michael Burov. Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1985.

Marxist Dialectics Today, 2nd ed., edited by P. V. Fedoseev et al.
Moscow: “Social Sciences Todayˮ Editorial Board, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1979.
Can be borrowed from archive.org.

Porshnev, B. F. [Boris Fedorovich] Leninist theory of revolution and social psychology.
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1970.

PUBLICATIONS OF OTHER EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Kozharov, Asen. Monism and pluralism in ideology and in politics.
Sofia: Sofia Press, 1975.

Pavlov, Todor. The Philosophy of Todor Pavlov. Sofia, Bulgaria: Sofia Press, 1970.

* Some publications of other Soviet publishing houses, such as Mir, Novosti, and Raduga, are included here, as are a few books from publishers in other Soviet bloc nations.

Note: The site leninist.biz site is defunct, but much of the linked material can be found on the “ghost web” looking up the links using the Wayback Machine at archive.org. (13 Oct 2017) Also, many whole books from Soviet publishers can be borrowed or permanently downloaded from archive.org. Check also marxists.org. (18 Apr 2021)

(10/20/2001; rev. 3/2/2005, 3/20/2005, 1/18/08, 5/21/08, 7/22/09, 8/5/09, 11/3/09, 8/11/10, 10/13/17, 4/18/21, 8/17/21, 1/31/22, 2/1/22, 2/21/22, 12/25/23, 3/11/24, 3/21/24, 11/30/24)

Salvaging Soviet Philosophy (1)
(with further links)

Evald Ilyenkov & Activity Theory:
Bibliography of Writings in English

Evald Ilyenkov & Mikhail Lifshits:
Aesthetics, Symbolic Mediation, & the Ideal:
Selected Bibliography

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia:
Selected Entries on Philosophical & Related Topics

Offsite:

leninist.biz
(bibliography + books online)
[defunct site but much material available via Wayback Machine, e.g.
here]

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