Soviet Historiography of Philosophy

"Scientific history of philosophy" was one of the professional branches of Soviet philosophy, and a place where philosophical culture was preserved in an often hostile environment. Situated between the ideological exigencies of the Soviet system with its Marxist-Lenninist theoretical foundation and the need for an objective account of philosophy's past, Soviet history of philosophy displays the characteristic features of Soviet philosophy as a whole, including a forceful reappearance of its Hegelian background. This text presents a study of this part of Soviet philosophy, thus filling the last main gap in Western "Philosophical Sovietology". At the same time, it offers a survey of Soviet philosophy after the disappearance of the Soviet system itself, embarking on an historical and meta-philosophical investigation of Soviet philosophical culture.