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Ivan Kozii


Urgency of the research. In each period of the development of Ukrainian philosophy, you need to be able to find those ideas that can be applied today. After all, both world and Ukrainian philosophers put the others, as well as themselves, the philosophical questions that troubled them and followed them throughout their lives. But even those periods in the Ukrainian philosophy that people do not feel like mentioning for one reason or another should not be forgotten, be studied, and result in appropriate conclusions.

Target setting. Such a period in domestic philosophy is its Soviet era. In the authors’ opinion, it should be studied at least to prevent something similar in the future. It should be analyzed and released to be able to move forward, having chosen such vectors of the development of the Ukrainian society that today will most fully cover the issues and challenges facing Ukraine in the 21st century.

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Such scientists as I. Yakhot,  T. Zakydalskyi, M. Rozhenko, M. Oleksiuk, I. Bychko, V. Tabachkovskyi, and the others were engaged in the development of the outlined problems.

The research objective. The purpose of this research is to distinguish, formulate and carry out the impartial study of the main vectors of the development of Ukrainian philosophy of the Soviet period of the 20s-30s of the 20th century.

The statement of basic material. Regarding the development of philosophy in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s, special attention should be paid to its basic concepts, namely: dialectical and historical materialism, the relationship of dialectical materialism with natural science, the problems of studying the history of philosophy, both Ukrainian and world. Moreover, it should be borne in mind that world philosophy was presented at a certain angle and with appropriate adjustments because the spokesmen of Marxist philosophy had a clear plan for how to better promote and implant their doctrine.

Conclusions. Thus, it can be concluded that despite all the above, the modern researchers of the history of Ukrainian philosophy can in no way level or deny the existence of the phenomenon of Ukrainian Soviet philosophy. Its basic concepts can be criticized, you can disagree with them, but you cannot dissociate yourself from them.

Keywords: dialectical materialism, Soviet philosophy, Marxism, historiosophy.


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