Abstract
The article is devoted to one of the most outstanding and serious Soviet and Russian philosophers – A.A. Zinoviev, with whom the author got acquainted as early as in 1950-s, being a student of the faculty of philosophy at Moscow State University when A.A. Zinoviev, E.V. Ilyenkov and other post-graduate students and professors were some sort of masterminds, thought leaders. The author chanced to study and work with these talented scientists at the department of dialectical materialism in the Institute of philosophy, USSR Academy of Sciences, and since then they were his closest friends and teachers until their death. The author reveals the depth and universality of A.A. Zinoviev’s philosophical views, political and cultural ideas, his uncompromising attitude to erroneous ideas and trends of political and ideological leaders of that time, as well as pro-Western writers and artists. Unlike the latter case A.A. Zinovev, while criticizing significant theoretical and practical shortcomings of the Soviet regime, remained the true patriot of his country and its people in all the periods of his life: before his exile, during the exile and after coming back come. The author reveals A.A. Zinoviev’s many-sided, prophetical talent of a philosopher, logician, writer, essayist, critic, his fearlessness and courage in his striving and fighting for truth, freedom, justice and genuine democracy.
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