René Ahlberg

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René Ahlberg (born April 16, 1930 in Riga ; † February 24, 1995 in Berlin ) was a German sociologist of Latvian origin. He researched the development and function of sociology in the Soviet Union .

Grave of René Ahlberg,
Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin

Ahlberg received his doctorate in 1960 at the FU Berlin , was then assistant to Hans-Joachim Lieber , completed his habilitation in 1968 at the FU and has been a professor there since 1969.

According to Ahlberg, the pre-industrial, Stalinist period of the suppression of sociology in the Soviet Union was followed by a rehabilitation of this science. Sociology continued to be politically directed and ideologically limited, but within this framework it developed into a positive empirical science in the Soviet Union.

René Ahlberg died on February 24, 1995, his grave is in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin / Schöneberg.

Fonts (selection)

  • Dialectical Philosophy and Society in the Soviet Union , Berlin: Eastern European Institute an d. Free University of Berlin, 1960.
  • World revolution through coexistence , Berlin: Colloquium Verl., 1962.
  • Development problems of empirical social research in the USSR (1917-1966) An analysis of the history of science , Berlin: Osteuropa-Institut, 1968.
  • The proletariat: the perspectives of the working class in industrial society , Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Mainz: Kohlhammer, 1974, ISBN 978-3-17-001289-9 .
  • The socialist bureaucracy: Marxist criticism of established socialism , Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Mainz: Kohlhammer, 1976, ISBN 978-3-17-002047-4 .
  • Socialism between ideology and reality: the Marxist criticism of the system since Leon Trotsky , Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, Mainz: Kohlhammer, 1979, ISBN 978-3-17-005187-4 .
  • Soviet Society in the Shift of Epochs: Studies on the Self-Enlightenment of Soviet Society in the Period of Perestroika 1985 - 1990 , Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1992, ISBN 978-3-631-45178-6 .

literature

  • J. Brockmann: Ahlberg, René , in: Wilhelm Bernsdorf / Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Vol. 1, Enke, Stuttgart ² 1980, p. 10.
  • René Ahlberg in memoriam , in: Osteuropa Vol. 46 1996, p. 636f.

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