Philosophy in the USSR: Problems of Dialectical Materialism

272,[2]pp. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt and black lettering front and spine. 8vo.   Cloth is a little rubbed on corners and spine tips, gently bumped on corners  Some shadowing on text block edges.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original shelf worn dust jacket, lightly bumped at edges and toned all over. bumped with a short crease at the base of the spine. Dialectical materialism is a materialist theory developed from the political writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels which emphasises the importance of social conditions, and the contradictions within them. Progress Publishers was a Moscow-based Soviet, and later Russian, publisher founded in 1931.