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Marxism and Religion in Eastern Europe

Papers Presented at the Banff International Slavic Conference, September 4–7,1974

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Editors:
  1. Richard T. George

    1. University of Kansas, USA

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  2. James P. Scanlan

    1. Ohio State University, USA

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Part of the book series: Sovietica (SOVA, volume 36)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Marxism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Communism and the New Marxists

      • Richard T. De George
      Pages 3-12

    3. Contemporary Problems of Dialectical Materialism

      • Z. A. Jordan
      Pages 13-43

    4. Marxist Philosophy in Czechoslovakia: The Lessons from Prague

      • Ivan Sviták
      Pages 45-62

    5. Marxist Philosophy in Yugoslavia: The Praxis Group

      • Mihailo Marković
      Pages 63-89

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 177-184
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About this book

Since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, two of the most significant but at the same time least understood areas of that revolution's cultural impact have been philosophy and religion. The impact has of course been massive, not only in the Soviet Union but, after the second World War, in Soviet­ dominated Eastern Europe as well. Yet the consequences of Communism for philosophy and religion throughout the Soviet orbit are far from having the simplicity suggested by the stereotypes of a single, monolithic 'Marxism' and a consistent, crushing assault on the Church and on re­ ligious faith. Unquestionably Marxism is the ruling philosophy throughout Eastern Europe. In the Soviet Union, 'Marxism-Leninism' or 'dialectical ma­ terialism' is the official and the only tolerated philosophy, and most of the other countries of Eastern Europe follow the Soviet lead in philosophy as in other fields. But in the latter countries Marxism was imposed only after W orId War II, and its deVelopment has not always copied the Soviet model. Original thinkers in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary have thought their own way through the writings of Marx and his followers, and have arrived at Marxist positions which are consider­ ably at variance with the Soviet interpretations - and often with each other. Moreover in recent years the Soviet philosophers themselves have been unable to ignore the theoretical questions raised by the other East of Marxism in the West.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Kansas, USA

    Richard T. George

  • Ohio State University, USA

    James P. Scanlan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Marxism and Religion in Eastern Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Papers Presented at the Banff International Slavic Conference, September 4–7,1974

  • Editors: Richard T. George, James P. Scanlan

  • Series Title: Sovietica

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1870-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1976

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0636-2Published: 31 December 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-1872-2Published: 21 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1870-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0561-2551

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 184

  • Topics: Political Philosophy

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