Fedoseev, Pyotr Nikolaevich

He was born on August 9 (22), 1908 in the village of Starinskoye of the Nizhny Novgorod province (currently - Pilninsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region ).

In 1930 he graduated from the Gorky Pedagogical Institute , in the same year he was approved as a nominee from the number of students in the socio-economic department of the Faculty of Education to prepare for teaching in philosophy ^[1] . In 1936 he graduated from the graduate school of the Moscow Historical and Philosophical Institute , defending a dissertation for the degree of candidate of philosophical sciences on the topic “Formation of Philosophical Views of F. Engels”.

In 1936-1941 he was a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . Doctor of Philosophy (1940, dissertation "Marxism-Leninism on religion and its overcoming"). In 1941-1955, he worked in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CPSU) / CPSU , was the editor-in-chief of the journal Bolshevik (until July 1949, removed by decree of the Central Committee), Party Life , and the head of the department of dialectical materialism of the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU .

In 1955-1962 - Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1962-1965 - academician-secretary of the Department of Philosophy and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1962-1967 and in 1971-1988, he was vice president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, who oversaw the humanitarian block. In 1967-1973 - Director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU .

He was one of the academicians of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR who signed in 1973 a letter from scientists to the newspaper Pravda condemning the "behavior of Academician A. D. Sakharov ." In the letter, Sakharov was accused of “making a number of statements defaming the political system, foreign and domestic policy of the Soviet Union”, and academics rated his human rights activities as “defaming the honor and dignity of the Soviet scientist” ^{[2] [3]} . He was elected a member of the Party Central Committee at the XXII — XXV Congresses of the CPSU. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 6-9 convocations. Chairman of the Commission on Public Education, Science and Culture of the Council of Nationalities of 8-9 convocations. Chairman of the Board of the Society of Soviet-Hungarian Friendship (since 1958 ). Honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1972), Academy of Sciences of the GDR , Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences . After the fire in the Library of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he resigned as vice president of the Academy. Since 1988 - Advisor to the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences .

Spouse - literary critic L. G. Fedoseyev-Bukhartseva (1926-1995) ^[4] .

He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery ^[5] .

The main works are devoted to the problems of historical materialism , scientific communism , scientific atheism , criticism of bourgeois philosophy and sociology . One of the editors of the Philosophical Encyclopedic Dictionary , M., 1983 .

• Hero of Socialist Labor (08.21.1978)
• 4 Orders of Lenin (04/27/1967; 07/20/1971; 09/17/1975; 08/21/1978)
• Order of the October Revolution (08.19.1983)
• Order of the Patriotic War I degree (09/23/1945)
• 4 orders of the Red Banner of Labor (04/20/1944; 06/10/1945; 08/08/1958; 08/19/1988)
• medals
• Mongolian Order of Sukhbaatar (1982)
• Gold medal named after K. Marx, Academy of Sciences of the USSR ( 1981 )

He was co-author and editor of a number of textbooks on the foundations of Marxist philosophy and scientific communism .

Monographs

• “How a human society arose” (M., 1934)
• "Marxism-Leninism about religion and its overcoming" (M., 1941)
• "The" Manifesto of the Communist Party "of Marx and Engels and the materialistic understanding of history" (M., 1948)
• "Productive forces and production relations of a socialist society" (M., 1955)
• "The role of the masses and the individual in history" (M., 1956)
• “Socialism and Humanism” (M., 1958)
• "Communism and Philosophy" (M., 1962; 2nd ed. 1971)
• "Dialectics of the modern era" (M., 1966; 3rd ed. 1978)
• "Marxism and voluntarism" (M., 1968)
• "AT. I. Lenin and questions of the theory of art "(M., 1968)
• "Marxism in the XX century." (M., 1972; 2nd ed. 1977)
• "Worldview, philosophy, science" (M., 1979)
• "AT. I. Lenin and the philosophical problems of natural science "(M., 1981)
• "Philosophy and scientific knowledge" (M., 1983)

Articles

• “Modern sociological theories about war and peace” // “Historical materialism and the social philosophy of the modern bourgeoisie” (M., 1960)
• “Humanism in the modern world” // “Man and the era” (M., 1964)
• Fedoseev P.N. Leninism - the basis of the modern scientific worldview // Questions of scientific atheism . Vol. 8. Leninist atheistic heritage and modernity (to the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin) / Otv. ed. A. F. Okulov ; Acad. societies. Sciences of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Institute of Scientific Atheism. - M .: Thought , 1969. - S. 3-23. - 380 s. - 17,000 copies.

• Fedoseev Petr Nikolaevich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.

• Profile of Pyotr Nikolayevich Fedoseyev on the official website of the RAS
• Biography in the Handbook of the History of the CPSU
• Fedoseev, Pyotr Nikolaevich . On the Chronos website .
• Historical background on the website of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Scientists in the fight for peace