An american philosopher at Moscow state university, 1964–1965

James Scanlan

pp. 185-201

in: Studies in East European Thought 52 (3), 2000.

Abstract

For an American philosopher participating in a cultural exchangeprogram with the Soviet Union in 1964–65, a year spent in the Philosophy Faculty of Moscow State University, studying and doingresearch in the history of Russian philosophy, provided manyinteresting insights – some of them surprising – into the theoryand practice of Marxism-Leninism and the nature of philosophicaleducation in Russia in the 1960s.