Personality and history. Plekhanov G.V.

The book includes the basic works of the philosopher, theorist of Marxism and one of the founders of the Russian Social Democratic Party of George Valentinovich Plekhanov according to the problems of historical materialism (materialistic understanding of history, criticism of the monistic householding look at history, the question of turning a person from an object into a genuine entity, Creator of the historical process), anarchism and socialism, as well as differences between them. Nowadays, the problems of the interaction of man and society, the role of personality in history, the analysis of the laws of historical development again become relevant. Complex social and historical processes of the 21st century, witnesses and participants of which we become, create the need to develop modern historiosophy and social philosophy, in which the works and ideas of G.V. Plekhanov can find a new application.

The book will be interesting to historians , philosophers, state leaders, political scientists, sociologists, as well as a wide circle of readers interested in the problems of the development of society and the state, the sources of Marxism and socialism and their historical fate.