A Reply to an American Scholar

Abstract

Note by Editors of Voprosy istorii: Professor Arthur Mendel of the University of Michigan has addressed himself to Soviet historians, through the instrumentality of the Institute of Soviet-American Relations, with a request to reply to a number of questions pertaining to the historical theory of Marxism. It appears to us to be useful to familiarize readers with the questions sent by the American scholar and the responses to it provided by members of the staff of the USSR Academy of Sciences' History Institute's Sector for Development of the Methodology of History.