Historical Materialism

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

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