Jan Ernestowitsch Sten
January Ernestowitsch Sten ( Russian Ян Эрнестович Стэн , Latvian Janis Stens ; born March 9, jul. / 21st March 1899 greg. In Livonia ; † 20th June 1937 in Moscow ) was a Soviet philosopher. He was considered an expert in dialectics , epistemology and social philosophy .
Life
Jan Sten became a member of the revolutionary movement in Latvia during the First World War . He fought in the Russian Civil War and was a delegate at the 9th and 10th Congress of the Communist Party .
Sten taught at Moscow State University, was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Революция и культура , transcription: Rewoljuzija i Kultura (Revolution and Culture). In 1925 he taught philosophy to Joseph Stalin twice a week. From 1928 to 1930 he was deputy director of the Marx-Engels Institute . In October 1932, Sten was expelled from the party and arrested for the first time. During the Stalin Great Terror , he was sentenced to death and shot.
literature
- Richard Lorenz: Communists Persecute Communists. Stalinist terror and "cleansing" in the communist parties of Europe since the 30s, Akademie Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-0500-2259-8 .
- History of philosophy . Volume 6, Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1967.
- Wladislaw Hedeler, Nadja Rosenblum: 1940, Stalin's happy year. BasisDruck, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8616-3108-8 .
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| SURNAME | Sten, Jan Ernestowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stens, Jānis (Latvian); Стэн, Ян Эрнестович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet philosopher, victim of Stalinism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Livonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1937 |
| Place of death | Moscow |