Teodor Oizerman


Teodor Ilyich Oizerman was a Soviet and Russian philosopher and academician.

Biography

Oizerman was born in Petroverovka village, Tiraspolsky Uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire, into a Jewish family. His parents were teachers. During World War II he served in the Red Army.
Oizerman was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1981 until his death. He received a doctorate, honoris causa, from the University of Jena in 1979 and the USSR State Prize in 1983. In 1979 Oizerman was awarded the Plekhanov prize for the monograph The main Trends in Philosophy. He also served in the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public.
Politically, following the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union Oizerman moved towards social democratic, anti-Leninist positions, as per regarding Lenin's interpretation and application of the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the Russian Revolution as incorrect, and leading Russian history towards oligarchy rather than the victorious establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Oizerman died on 25 March 2017 in Moscow at the age of 102.

Works

Oizerman was a prolific author. Below is a partial list of his monographs.