Chagin, Boris Alexandrovich

Member of the Civil War and the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising (1921). Member of the RCP (b) since 1920 . Since 1922 he was at the teaching job. He graduated from the historical department of the Military Pedagogical School in Petrograd (1923) and the philosophical department of the Institute of Red Professors (1931). In the 1930s he taught Marxism-Leninism at the educational institutions of the Red Army and the Leningrad branch of the Communist Academy .

In 1940 he was elected dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Leningrad State University , from where in 1941 he went to the people's militia. ^[1] After World War II, he headed the Department of Philosophy of the Military Medical Academy and the Department of the History of Philosophy of Leningrad State University . Doctor of Philosophy (1946), Professor (1948). Since 1963 - a senior researcher at the Leningrad Department of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, later head of the department.

He was the editor of the philosophical series “Vestnik LSU”, a member of the editorial boards of the journals “ Questions of Philosophy ” and “ Scientific reports of higher education. Philosophical sciences . " The famous researcher of scientific creativity G. V. Plekhanov , editor of a number of editions of his works ("Selected Philosophical Works", vols. 1-5, 1956-1958; "Philosophical and Literary Heritage", vols. 1-3, 1973-1974).

• "Philosophical and sociological views of F. Mehring" (1934)
• "The struggle of Lenin for Marxist materialism in the 90's." (1940)
• "Problems of development in nature and society" (1958, editor)
• "The struggle of Marxism-Leninism against philosophical revisionism in con. XIX - beg. XX centuries. "(1959)
• “From the history of the struggle of B. I. Lenin for the development of Marxist philosophy” (1960)
• "The Leninist Stage in the Development of Marxist Philosophy" (1960)
• "From the history of the struggle against philosophical revisionism in German social democracy (1895-1914)" (1961)
• "G. V. Plekhanov and his role in the development of Marxist philosophy ”(1963)
• "The development of Marx and Engels theory of scientific socialism after the Paris Commune" (1964)
• “The Problem of Opportunity and Reality” (1964, editor)
• "Lenin on the role of the subjective factor in history" (1967)
• “The Development of V.I. Lenin of Historical Materialism after the Great October Socialist Revolution” (1967, in collaboration with Z. M. Protasenko and V.P. Fedotov)
• “The subjective factor: structure and patterns” (1968)
• “Creation and development by K. Marx and F. Engels of the theory of scientific communism” (1970)
• "Essay on the history of sociological thought in the USSR (1917-1969)" (1971)
• “The History of the Development of Soviet Sociology for Half a Century” // “Philosophical Sciences”, 1972, No. 2–3 (in collaboration with V. P. Fedotov)
• "Plekhanov" (1973, in collaboration with I. N. Kurbatova)
• "The Marxist-Leninist principle of partisanship in philosophy" (1974)
• “The struggle for historical materialism in the USSR in the 1920s” (1975, in collaboration with V. I. Klushin )
• “Development by G. V. Plekhanov of the general sociological theory of Marxism” (1977)
• Sociological Thought in Russia (1978, editor)
• "The structure and patterns of public consciousness" (1982)
• "AT. I. Lenin on the dialectics of the objective and subjective in the historical process ”(1985)
• “Historical materialism in the USSR during the transitional period of 1917-1936: a historical and sociological essay” (1986, in collaboration with V. I. Klushin)

The author of chapters and sections in collective works “A Brief History of Philosophy” (1940; 6th ed. 1981), “History of Philosophy” (vols. 1–6, 1957–1965), “Marxist-Leninist Philosophy” (1964), “History of the CPSU” (vol. 1, 1964).

He was awarded the Order of Lenin , the Order of the October Revolution , four other orders, as well as medals.

Prize winner G. V. Plekhanov, Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1973) “for the development of the Leninist stage in the development of the philosophy of Marxism and the philosophical heritage of G. V. Plekhanov in the works“ Lenin on the role of the subjective factor in history ”,“ Subjective factor. Structure and patterns “,“ G. V. Plekhanov and his role in the development of Marxist philosophy "" ^[2] .

• Chagin Boris Alexandrovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
• Profile of Boris Alexandrovich Chagin on the official website of the RAS
• An article on the Biography.ru website
• Historical background on the website of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Materialism and idealism in ancient Greece