HISTORICAL MATERIALISM

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An introduction to the mode of production, explains a social order’s base and superstructre, people as decivise in social development, classes and class struggle, the state, revolutionary change, social consciousness.

V.G. Afanasyevwas a Soviet public figure, remembered for his work as a philosophy academic, politician, and news editor. Afanasyev was editor-in-chief of the journalKommunistand deputy editor and editor-in-chief ofpravda.