Waltraut "Travka" Fritzevna Schälike (; January 20, 1927 – May 14, 2021) was a Soviet-Russian scientist of

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, author and

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. She was a scholar of Marxism, PhD,

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Biography

Schälike was born in Berlin. Her father was Fritz Schälike. She graduated from MSU Faculty of History. She studied with

Svetlana Alliluyeva Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva (née Stalina; 28 February 1926 – 22 November 2011), later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva. In 1967, she bec ...

. From 1949 to 1988, she worked at the

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. From 1959, she worked at the Osh State University. She published in '' Kommunist,

Voprosy Istorii ''Voprosy Istorii'' (Russian: ''Вопросы истории'', translated ''Questions of History'') is a Russian academic journal for historical studies. It is published monthly by the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Scienc ...

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''. She is the author of books (in Russian) including «Исходные основания материалистического понимания истории» («Илим», 1991). She died in Moscow, aged 94.

Works

* Schälike W. The Basic Foundations of the Materialistic Understanding of History: (Based on the works of K. Marx and F. Engels 1844–1846) (In Russian) Илим, 1991 *Schälike W. Misunderstood Marx and Some Problems of Modernity (Part 3). Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences. 2013;(5):120–130. (In Russ.) * Shaelike W. In Search of the Beginning of Marx Materialistic Theory of History. Article II. Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences. 2018;(2):20–43. (In Russ.
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1927 births 2021 deaths German Marxists German emigrants to the Soviet Union Russian women scientists Russian women historians Scholars of Marxism Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of Kyrgyz National University Academic staff of Osh State University Scientists from Berlin Soviet Marxist historians {{Russia-scientist-stub