Richard Ivanovich Kosolapov (russian: Ричард Иванович Косолапов; 25 March 1930 – 15 November 2020) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, author, social philosopher, doctor of philosophy and journalist. He was a professor at the Moscow State University (MSU).

Biography

Kosolapov was born in Novonikolayevsky,

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. He graduated from the Moscow State University Faculty of Philosophy in 1955. He later went there to graduate school, receiving his Candidate of Sciences in Philosophical Sciences in 1962, and subsequently returned to earn a Doctor of Sciences in Philosophical Sciences in 1971. He also taught on the Faculty of Philosophy from 1961 to 1964. In 1974, he received the title of professor. He was employed by the

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department of the

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from 1966 to 1974, rising to become its deputy head. Starting in 1974, he became the First Deputy Chief Editor of '' Pravda'', and in 1976 became the Editor-in-Chief of the ''

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'', a post which he held until 1986. During his tenure at ''Kommunist'', he was twice elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU, in 1976 and 1981. Returning to MSU in 1986, Kosolapov served as the acting Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy until 1987, after which he became a Professor of the Department of Historical Materialism until 1991, when he was named Senior Researcher in the Department of Social Philosophy and Philosophy of History, a position he held until 2015. Kosolapov received a number of awards from the Soviet Union, including the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1971, the Order of the October Revolution in 1980, and the Order of Lenin, its highest civilian award, in 1984. Kosolapov died on 15 November 2020, at the age of 90.

References

Online works in English

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Communism and Freedom
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Problems of Socialist Theory
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Socialism: Questions of Theory
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Developed Socialism: Theory and Practice
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