Abstract
Russian philosophy of the Soviet period, particularly before "de-Stalinization" began in the later 1950s, was accessible to Western observers almost solely through the officially sanctioned publications of writers who followed the dictates of Communist Party ideology. Very little was publicly known (even in Russia) about the political processes by which the tenets of that ideology (and hence its philosophical expression) were fixed in the first place, and still less was known about the inner intellectual life—the actual beliefs, hopes, and fears—of the individual thinkers who labored within this tightly governed philosophical universe. The processes of ideology fixation were shrouded in Communist Party secrecy, and the individual philosophers were mostly anonymous, especially to Western eyes—a colorless mass of like-thinking champions of Marxism-Leninism.
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