Mikhail Vasilyevich Popov (russian: Михаил Васильевич Попов; born 24 February 1945 in

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) is a Soviet Russian scientist in the fields of philosophy and economy.

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in Philosophical Sciences (1989), Professor at the

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, Member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a popularizer of Marxism and socialism. He was a

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

member. Lived in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(since 1946). He graduated with honors from the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Saint Petersburg State University in 1968. He received the

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's degree in 1971. In 1987, he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1995, he received the title of Professor. From 1971 he worked at the Saint Petersburg State University. Popov is the author of 9 monographs and more than 300 works. Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1967. He was assistant to

Oleg Shein Oleg Vasilyevich Shein (russian: Оле́г Васи́льевич Ше́ин; born March 21, 1972 in Astrakhan, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian trade union, social and political activist. He was a left-wing deputy of the State Duma's III, IV, V, V ...

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