Mark Moiseyevich Rozental (Russian: Марк Моисеевич Розенталь; 1906, Ustia – 1975, Moscow) was a Soviet philosopher and teacher, specializing in the fields of dialectical materialism, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy.
He lost both parents to typhus at an early age.
In 1925 he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
He worked at a metal factory and at a sugar mill before being admitted to the School of Philosophy in Moscow in 1928.
[2] Later in life he edited a journal of literary criticism and headed the department of Historical and Dialectical Materialism at the CPSU Central Committee's Higher Party School.