Valentin Asmus (philosopher)

Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus (Russian: Валенти́н Фердина́ндович А́смус; December 30, 1894 – June 4, 1975) was a Soviet philosopher.

He was one of the small group who continued the classical European philosophical tradition through the early Soviet times.

[1] He was an independent thinker and unorthodox Marxist,[2] with interests in the history of philosophy and aesthetics.

[6] His major work Marx and Bourgeois Historicism (1933) was influenced by György Lukács.

There is a story of his being summoned to see Joseph Stalin, and required to give logic lectures to Red Army generals.