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Institute imeni Dorzhi Banzarova where he has guided the work of three aspirants
for the candidate degree. He was on the Scientific Council on folklore of the
Academy and a member of the coordination council for the comparative study of the
Russian and American cultures.
Spirkin, Aleksandr G. Born in 1918 in Chiganak, Saratov Oblast. Russian philosopher
and psychologist. Corresponding member of the Philosophy and Law Department of
the Academy since 1974. He graduated from the V. I. Lenin Moscow Pedagogical
Institute in 1941, and has taught since 1946. From 1960 to 1970, he headed the
philosophy department of the Sovetskaia (aya) Entsiklopediia Publishing House and
was an assistant editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He has been a
senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy since 1962, and Vice
President of the Philosophy Society of the USSR since 1974. (GSE 24, p.427.)
Starushenko, Gleb B., D. Iur. S. Born in 1922. Corresponding member of the
Philosophy, Sociology and Law Department of the Academy since 1984. Since
1966, he has been Deputy Director of the Africa Institute in Moscow. The institute
was created in 1959 to research the economic, socio-political l, international,
historical l, and cultural-ethnological problems of the African states. It coordinates
its work with the scientists in the Oriental Institute. It also maintains a branch in St.
Petersburg. He is currently a member of the Bureau of the Department.
Stepanian, Tsolak A., D. Phil. S. Born in 1911 in Satkhe, Georgia. Philosopher.
Corresponding member of the Philosophy and Law Department of the Academy
since 1964. He graduated from the K. Liebnecht Moscow Pedagogical Institute. He
has taught philosophy in higher educational institutions in Moscow since 1933. In
1946, he joined the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy and in 1965, he became
Head of the sector (since 1972, the department) of scientific communism. His works
are in historical materialism and scientific communism. (GSE 24, p. 530.)
Yanovskii, Rudolf G., D. Phil. S. Born in 1929. Corresponding member of the
Philosophy and Law Department since December 1987. Currently also a member of
the Bureau of the Department. (LDA 89-11378.)
Yusupov, Erkin Iurii, D. Phil. S. Born in 1929. Academician of the Philosophy,
Economics and Law Department of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences since 1984.
Vice President of the Uzbek Academy since 1979. Corresponding member of the
Philosophy and Law Department of the AN SSSR from December 1987.
Organization of Leading Institutes:
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The State and Law Institute in Moscow is organized into 17 sections and divisions, that
include: Universal Problems of Socialist States and Legal Systems; State and Law of
Bourgeois and Developing States; Deposition of State Legal Problems in Socialist
Systems; History of State and Law; Socialist Administration of Iustice; Civil Law
and Civil Procedure; Civil Law and Economic Law; Land Law; Agricultural
Management Law; Labor Law; Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure; International
Law; People's States; People's States and Socialist States; Space Law; Scientific
Information, and the Laboratory for Concrete Social and Legal Research. The
Sociology Institute in Moscow was reorganized in 1978, and was divided into at
least six Departments with some 18 sectors. The Departments included: 1.
Department of the Social Structure of Soviet Society; 2. Department of Social
Problems of the Labor Collective; 3. Department of Social Forecasting; 4.
Department of Sociological Investigation of Ideological Processes; 5. Department of
the History of Marxist-Leninist Sociology and Criticism of Bourgeois Sociology,
and 6. Department of Applied Mathematical Methods and Methods of Automatic
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