Publisher's Synopsis
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. 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.