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Laboratory for Philosophical Problems of Ethnology; (4.) philosophical
anthropology, ethics and esthetics: philosophical problems of man; ethics; esthetics,
and philosophy of culture; (5.) history of Marxist philosophy and problems of
socialism: Marxist philosophy in the 19th-early 20th centuries; Marxist philosophical
thought in the 20th century, and concepts of socialism and modern civilization; (6.)
the history of philosophy: history of Western philosophy; history of Russian
philosophy; philosophy of the non-Soviet Orient, and contemporary Western
philosophy--with laboratories in post-classical philosophy (literature, arts, and
policy); sociocultural forecasting; coordination of philosophical and social problems
of science and technology. Stepin is heading research in the human dimension of
scientific-technical progress.
Topornin, Boris N. Born in 1929. Corresponding member of the Philosophy and Law
Department of the Academy since 1987; academician in 1993. The State and Law
Institute in Moscow is under the direction of Boris N. Topornin, It traces its
beginnings back to the establishment of a section on Soviet Construction at the
Socialist Academy--the Communist Academy--in 1923 and was initially organized as
the Soviet Construction Institute in 1925. It passed through several name changes
and reorganizations until in 1960 its present name was finally adopted. Its research
directly affects Soviet legislation. It has a staff that includes over 100 scientists who
hold the doctoral degree and over 120 who hold candidate degrees. It counts one
academician and three corresponding members of the national academy among its
members. The four Departments of the institute include: (1.) theory of the state and
the law; (2.) legal problems of economic and social development; (3.) international
law problems of the state and law in foreign countries, and (4.) the information
Department.
Corresponding Members
Alekseev, Sergei S. Corresponding member of the Philosophy and Law Department of
the Academy and of the Urals department since 1987. Since the establishment of the
Philosophy and Law Institute in Ekaterinburg in 1988, he has been Director of that
Institute which includes seven task groups on law and the individual l, law and the
economy, socialism and humanism, rational analysis of socialist society, philosophy
of history and man, participation in the political process, and social rationality and
humanism. It also houses a laboratory for collection of legal information. (LDA 89-
11378.)
Asimov, Mukhamed S., D. Phil. S. Born in 1920. Russian philosopher. From 1965 to
1988, he was President of the Tadzhik Academy of Sciences. Since 1965, he has
been an academician of the Social Science Department of the Tadzhik Academy. He
has been a corresponding member of the Philosophy and Law Department of the
RAS since 1974. He graduated from the Alisher Novoi Uzbek University in 1941.
From 1946 to 1952, he was assistant Director of the Leninabad Pedagogical
Institute. He was rector of the Dushanbe Polytechnic Institute from 1956 to 1962.
From 1962 to 1965, he was minister of public education of the Tadzhik SSR,
secretary of the Central Committee of t the Tadzhikistan communist party, and
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Tadzhik SSR. He was a
member of the Central Committee of the Tadzhik CP. He was a Deputy to the 6th
convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the Tadzhik SSR and to the 7th Convocation
of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (GSE 2, p. 403.)
Bikkenin, N. B. Corresponding member of the Philosophy and Law Department of the
Academy in 1993.
Boyko, Vladimir I., D. Econ. S. Born in 1926. Corresponding member of the
Philosophy and Law Department of the Academy since 1987. Sociologist.
Specialist in research on the sociological processes of the Far North, Siberia and the
Far East, and studies of the effectiveness of socialist development in those areas. He
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