Dialectical materialism and the concrete sciences: Kyiv, Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, 1961, 79 p.

The brochure shows the importance of materialist dialectics as a general methodology for specific sciences, especially natural sciences, and attempts to demonstrate the scientific, practical, and political significance of Marxists and representatives of natural science of the time; the author criticizes various forms of idealism in natural science of the time from the standpoint of Marxism-Leninism.

CONTENTS

Section I. The subject of Marxist philosophy and of the natural sciences

            The subject of Marxist philosophy

            The subject of the natural sciences

            The relationship between natural science and Marxist philosophy

Section II. Materialist dialectics and methods of concrete sciences

            Dialectics is a universal method of cognition and revolutionary change of the world

            Special methods of concrete sciences

            The relationship between dialectics and the methods of the concrete sciences

Section III. The significance of the union of philosophy and natural science