2nd Edition Monograph (1st ed. published in 1970 in the publishing house "Science") contains a systematic presentation of the history of Russian philosophical and sociological thought from the emergence of class society and statehood in Kievan Rus to the spread and establishment of Marxism in Russia at the end of the 19th century. There is a mutual agreement on the development of philosophy and the features of the historical process in Russia at its various stages, mutual influence of philosophy and natural science thought, relations between Russian and Western European philosophy. For philosophers, historians, literary scholars, everyone studying the history of Russian philosophy and Russian culture in general.