Sergei Konstantinovich Minin
Sergei Konstantinowitsch Minin (* 1882 - 8 January 1962 ) was a Soviet publicist.
Minin was born on June 29th (July 11th) in Dubovka in what is now Volgograd Oblast, the son of a priest.
From 1903 Minin was active in the revolutionary movement of the Bolsheviks , in 1905 he became a party member.
After various military activities on the side of the Red Army in the civil war, he was promoted to the Northwest Section of the Central Committee. After all, he was rector of the Communist University from 1923 and in 1925 in a leading position at the Petrograd State University .
His slogan "bread instead of philosophy" was well known. To him philosophy was the ideology of the bourgeois age, just as religion was that of the feudal age. On the other hand, he relies on (natural) science as the weapon of the proletariat.
From 1927 he had to retire from public work for health reasons. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner .
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| SURNAME | Minin, Sergei Konstantinowitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1882 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1962 |