Fyodor Konstantinov

Fyodor Vasilyevich Konstantinov (Russian: Фёдор Васи́льевич Константи́нов; 21 February 1901 – 8 December 1991) was a Soviet Marxist–Leninist philosopher and academician.

Born in to a peasant family, he joined the Red Army after the October Revolution and became a participant of the Civil War in Siberia.

After becoming a member of the Communist Party in 1918, he graduated from the Institute of Red Professors in 1932 and earned his PhD in Philosophy in 1935.

He also acted as head of the Propaganda Department of the CC of the CPSU (Отделом пропаганды и агитации ЦК КПСС, 1955–58).

He was a main author of the historical materialism (Историч материализм, 1951) and the Fundamentals of Marxist Philosophy (Основы марксистской философии, 1958), and chief editor of the Philosophical Encyclopedia (volumes 1–3, 1960–64).