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In 2012 the whole thinking world iscelebrating the 90th anniversary of thebirth of Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev– logician, philosopher, sociologist, writer,ideologist, outstanding citizen of Russia.

The world is discovering for itself thephenomenon that is Alexander Zinoviev,Renaissance man, one of the mostalluring, intriguing individuals of the 20thand beginning of the 21st Centuries, ahero of our time, while being a man aheadof his time…

Alexander Zinoviev is the firsttheoretician of humankind in its era ofglobal awakening. He devoted his wholelife to the study of the intellectual, socialand civic awakening of humanity, and ofits principal driving force: reason. Hislegacy focuses on the preservation anddevelopment of the “comprehensionfactor”, which allows the individual tocomprehend mankind’s social existenceand helps him to survive in the world oftoday as an independent and free-thinking human being. After all, only “manignites the flame of reason and there is nosubstitute for this miracle”.

The life of Alexander Zinoviev offers aRussian blueprint for resisting socialentropy and ideological manipulation, theglobal dumbing down of people’s minds,

obscurantism, superimposed choice, anabsence of any alternative and themanipulation of history. It is the path ofresistance to the planned global controlof the human evolutionary process.

His creed is the pursuit of truth,whatever the cost. His formula is service tothe truth. His standard is the acme ofintellectual ratiocination. His world is thesphere of society, to a study of whose lawshe devoted himself wholeheartedly. Hisheroic feat was to throw down the gauntletto an all-powerful Leviathan. His fate was thetragedy of a Russian genius and prophetwho was banished from his Fatherland. Hisepoch is the great turning point inhumankind’s evolutionary process. Hisintellectual tradition of teaching people tothink in a new way is his uncompromisingsearch for a social and civilised alternativeevolutionary path in today’s world.According to his fundamental law it is onlypossible to remain human by going againstthe current.

Zinoviev's path is that of a New Manwhose moral code is grounded in thefollowing values:

DIGNITY,

JUSTICE,

CREATIVE WORK

THE YEAR OF ALEXANDER ZINOVIEV 2012

Russian Blueprint for Resisting

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«The prayer of the believing atheist»

«It's been proved by cyclotrons And so it must be true,The world is full of electronsAnd chromosomes - not YOU.And so you don't exist, oh God,You're just a priestly lie;But all the same, I pray you, God,Exist for me - please try!You may not be omnipotent,Omniscient, all-blest,Farsighted and benevolent,Forgiving and the rest.It's not a big request I make,So do your best for me:All-seeing be, for goodness' sake,I pray you, God, please see.Just see, that's really all I want,Just that and nothing more.Just keep an eye on what goes on,On who's against, who's for.That's all you've got to do, oh Lord,There's nothing else to say;All else besides can be ignoredSave what I do, what They.I'll make concessions if you want:If you can't watch it all,Watch one per cent of what goes on,Just that and nothing more.We need someone to watch this world,So that's why I insistAnd roar and scream and rantOh Lord!!Not pray – demand:Exist!!I whisper,I croak:ExistOh Lord!!!I pray,Not demand,Exist!!!!»

Alexander Zinoviev

«Gospels for Ivan», 1988

«Calamity»

«That day is bad luck, THEY`ll take youaway. Maybe forever or for one day.THEY`ll silently do it for people to look.You like it or not, but you are on the hookYour mother won’t weep and your fatherwon’t see, Your friends will not fight THEM to let yougo freeColleagues will not scream indignationand shameAll will look away and live all the same.To Nowhere alone from friends you willpart Nobody will keep your words in his heart»

Alexander Zinoviev«The Madhouse», 1978–1979

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«The friendship with Zinoviev enriched my life in

many senses. He’s aunique person, and his

genius shows in his abilityto explain with few wordsthe essence of our world,

why everything happensand where it leads to…

He’s the only one to havethat genius gift. I adorehim, he’s a great man»

Mstislav Rostropovich,Cellist, conductor (RF)

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Philosophical Problems ofmany-valued logic

«Every scientific theory is two-valuedor in general n-valued in the sense thatlogical symbols 'and', 'or', 'if...then...', etc.,are used in it, and the rules of deductioncan be defined and justified in logicaltheories in which two or generally n truthvalues are attributed to the propositions.Thus the choice of one or another systemof definitions depends on the propertiesof the object domain studies and on theconditions of its knowledge»

«As to the rise of many-valued logic, itaims (among other problems) at giving awider and more exact description of thelows of scientific thinking, and ataccounting also for the progress ofscience in this respect, but it in no waydenies the laws of classical logic. It deniesonly the claim of some representatives oftraditional logic for a final completenessof formal logic and for the independenceof its laws from the progress ofknowledge»

Alexander Zinoviev, 1960

Foundations of the logical theory ofscientific knowledge

«Thus, the logical theory of scientificknowledge is not a special science,different fro, and paralled to logic. It issimply that part (or aspect) of logic whichmakes it possible for the formal apparatusof logic to be counted precisemy as anapparatus of logic and not of any otherscience. It explains the basis on which thisapparatus is set up, the direction ofdevelopment of it, and paths of using it inthe describing and perfecting of thelanguage of science»

«It is our view that one can construct atheory of scientific knowledge adequateto the practice of contemporary science

only with the help of various logicalcalculi, methods, conceptions, trends, etc.To accomplish this the very problems oflogic have to be expanded and reorientedrelative to the tradition which has beenbuilt up in logic. We have tried to show thepossibilities which can be discoveredalready in the analysis of the mostfundamental concepts and principles oflogic if they are regarded as means ofdescribing the properties of scientificknowledge»

Alexander Zinoviev, 1967

«The Comprehension Factor»

«The comprehension factor in myrendition (my teaching) is radicallydifferent from every other existingteaching of this sort that I know of – as awhole as well as detail-wise. All suchdisciplines – or teachings (includingMarxism) are conceived as compilationsof intellectual materials penned by avariety of authors. What I propose is atheory with a singular organicconceptual structure (non-compilatory),organised as a whole in accordance withthe rules of my own logical conception»

Alexander Zinoviev, 2006

«Reading Zinoviev is a remedy against the

freezing of our society»Max Gallo,

Writer, historian, politician, member ofFrench Academy (France)

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Intellectology

«In this part of the book I give apopular description of my research inwhat I call the logical aspect of humanintellectual activity, or logical intellect. Iuse the term «intellectology» for referringto the scientific discipline that studieslogical intellect. As for its subject area,intellectology combines everything thatpertains to logic (which studies the natureof cogitation), ontology (which studiesthe nature of being) and epistemology(which studies the nature and scope ofknowledge)... I consider logic, ontologyand epistemology to be different facets ofa single discipline – a science that studiesthe following three aspects of the humanintellect simultaneously: language, beingand knowledge»

Alexander Zinoviev,

«The Comprehension Factor», 2006

The Future of the human intellect

«The masters of the new world donot need an evolved intellect. It is quitebeyond their comprehension. Partial orlocal applications of intellect arecommonplace; however, they do not gobeyond the narrow boundaries ofparticularities and do not affect thesummary state of human intellect in anyway. Intellect in my understanding hasnever been studied scientifically withthe application of all resourcesavailable. It remains a terra incognita, amaterial for bulk verbiage anddemagoguery. I have no knowledge ofwhether the situation is going toimprove or not. Most likely, theimprovements will be insignificant andwithout any mass success. Principalchanges in foreseeable future are rightout of the question. There is no one to

introduce them, and nobody has anypractical need for anything of the sort»

Alexander Zinoviev, 2006

About the sense of life

«The phenomenon defined by theexpression ‘the sense of life’ is anideological phenomenon that meansone pertaining to masses.

A human taken as an individual canhave objectives in his life, not the senseof it. The individual has the sense of lifeas a part of a mass that carries certainideology. The sense of life is a state of anindividual that makes him a part ofsomething historically grandiose».

Alexander Zinoviev

Life on Earth

««I do not believe in the existence ofother planets but the Earth inhabited byliving and sentient creatures. Life ingeneral and humanity in particular areunique and inimitable phenomena.Should they reach extinction on Earth, theUniverse shell forever remain dead andsoulless».

Alexander Zinoviev for «The International

Book of Peace», Munich, 1990

The loneliness

«The individual becomes a loner oncehe dares to become human»

Alexander Zinoviev

«As for me, the philosopherAlexander Zinoviev belongsto the old spiritual tradition ofthe great Russian literature»

Georges Nivat,Historian, translator, slavist (France)

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«The Yawning Heights»

«Let's tot up the balance sheet,Chatterer said to himself. Just a summaryof accounts. But a vital one.

What is the foundation of thefoundations of human existence? Alas, theanswer is a commonplace. It's been clearfrom the very start. Why did I have to livemy life through to be sure of it? I don'tknow.

I know only one thing: truth is thefoundation of any truly humanexistence. The truth about oneself. Thetruth about others. The battle for truthand against it is the most ferocious andprofound battle fought in society. Andfrom now on the level of developmentof society, from the point of view of itshumanity, will be defined by the degreeof truth it allows.

This is the first, the most primitive ofevaluations. When people achieve acertain minimum level of truthfulness,they will advance other criteria. Buteverything begins from there»

Alexander Zinoviev

«The Yawning Heights», 1976.

Translated from the Russian

by Gordon Clough

«Homo Sovieticus»

«This book is about Soviet Man.He is anew type of man, Homo Sovieticus. Wewill shorten him to Homosos. I have adual relationship zith this new being: Ilove him and at the same time I hate him;I respect him and I despise him. I amdelighted with him and I am appalled byhim. I myself am a Homosos. Therefore Iam merciless and cruel when I describehim. Judge us, because you yourselves willbe judged by us»

Alexander Zinoviev, 1981

«The Global human anthill»

«Our XX century was probably, as forthe destiny of humans, peoples, ideas,social systems and civilizations, the mostdramatic in history of humanity. But it wasalso a century of human passions andgrief, a century of hope and despair, ofillusions and insights, of seductions anddisappointments, of joy and woe, of loveand hatred…

Maybe it was the last truly humanepoch, one to be replaced by centuries ofsuper-human or post-human history, onebare of hope and despair, bare of illusionsand insights, of seductions anddisappointments, bare of joy and woe, oflove and hatred»

Alexander Zinoviev, 1982

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the first book of the XXIcentury»

Wladimir Dimitrijevic, publisher and

founder of "L'Age d'Homme",1978

«Alexander Zinoviev is oneof the greatest modernwriters insofar as pure

literature is concerned,perhaps the greatest»

Eugene Ionesco,

playwright (Romania)

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The Reality of Communism

«Marxism makes a distinctionbetween the lowest stage of Communismwhich is Socialilm and the highest whichis full Comunism... It is reckoned thatsociety has not yet achieved this higheststage.

…I shall ignore the Marxist distinctionbetween Socialism and Comunism as apurely ideological phenomenon. I shallexamine the type of society that isdominant in the USSR and a number ofother countries as the actual embodimentof the aspirations of the classical Marxistsand of all the, the Marxist sense,progressive thinkers of the past»

Alexander Zinoviev,

«The Reality of Communism», 1981

Global Supra-society

«Global supra-society is formed notafter the mould of western societies, butafter the mould of supra-societies. It haswestern supra-societies in the process offormation as its components. Thesecomponents are fit into one whole byupper strata of the global supra-society –«society of the second order» on theworld scale. This stratum rules the today’shumanity, not a bunch of the superrich.The instant when the global supra-society has appeared the very type of theevolutionary process has changed: thedegree and the scale of understanding ofhistorical events have reached such levelthat chaotic evolutionary process wasreplaced by the evolution both plannedand managed»

Alexander Zinoviev,

«On the way to Supra-society», 1988

Colonial democracy

«Colonial democracy in a country isnot a result of the natural evolution ofits innate historical conditions and laws.It is something artificial imposed on thiscountry by external force contrary to itspotential and evolutionary tendencythat was inbuilt historically. It is keptafloat by colonial measures.

The country chosen for colonizationis lead into a state of affairs of completeinability to exist on its own. Frommilitary point of view, the country isdemilitarized to the point whenresistance becomes unthinkable.

The armed forces have the functionof keeping down the protests of thepopulation and suppressing eventualuprisings. National culture is vulgarizedinto a pittance. Masses are fed with thesurrogate of democracy made ofabsence of discipline, of low levelcontrols by authorities, cheapentertainment, debauchery and laissez-faire, of scale of values that free theindividuals of any moral self-containment»

Alexander Zinoviev

«The West. The phenomenon of

Westernism», 1995

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«Let’s admit that wehaven’t yet adequately

studied the society we liveand work in»

Yuri Andropov,Secretary of the Communist Party of the

Soviet Union, Head of the KGB (USSR)

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A Thinker's Palette

«...ugly, and wretched society with whichthe artist has broken... There is somethinggrotesque in the sardonic, merciless satire ofevents which could as well have occurredelsewhere, even in the United States orFrance. Thus the compelling vision ofChernobyl: the evocative power of thisapocalyptic composition goes far beyond theaccident and calls into question the whole ofuncontrolled science.

The sharp, sparing lines formed withoutexcessive flourishes, are sometimesdeliberately brutal and vulgar so as to reflectmore clearly the absurdity and derisiveness ofa closed world. The choice of colours iswillingly limited, moving through a few dark,aggressive shades, marked here and there bydespair and nihilism. Opposition of intensereds and blues reinforce this oppressivenessof a penitentiary world where pessimismwithers even vague hopes and dashes hints ofcheerfulness.

...On all accounts, these are powerful,symbolic and thought-provoking works...

A valuable testimony»Claude Ketterer, art critic

Anguish, diurnal and nocturnal

«Alexander Zinoviev's paintings also havesimilarities to a whole artistic movement ofrealistical fantasy...

Zinoviev's tonalities – they are oftenmuted, sombre, «cold», – express anotherworld, a distorted, occasionally ironical, attimes profoundly bewitching, at timesobsessively disturbing world. Certainpaintings, such as the boldly composedDestiny, or Germany with its hieraticmonumentality (both are built from purple-red, yellow and black) convey even better themineral solitudes of an expanse forsaken byman. And when men - or women - do appear,they stand erect, motionless, their eyes turned

on an infinite and invisible horizon, captivesof the immutable. Add to that a baroque,albeit often manneristic emphasis created bythe juxtaposition of contrasted colours of abitter-sweet quality, and the physicaldistortions of humans and animals, especiallyhorses, whose bodies are given the clean,plastic elongations...

.. these paintings have a visionary powerthat fires both the soul and the mind.

The world has become a set of situationsto be fathomed, and the key is given by anuncovered tragic vein which is rooted in theinmost depths of Alexander Zinoviev... Afterthe fashion of his novels... his paintingsdescribe a tragicomic universe which must bedeciphered on two levels; the form says whatit represents and also reveals what lies in theinmost depths of each one of us, as weconfront all sorts of ideological systems: ournocturnal anguish»

Sylvio Acatos, journalist , art critic

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burlesque, black humour,tragic laughter, colossal

absurdity, but at the sametime, he dissects and

describes the ideologicalmechanism of the Soviet

society in all its details anddepicts with incredible

precision the nightmare ofeveryday’s life in the Soviet

Union»Bernard Pivot,

Journalist, member of Goncourt

Academy (France)

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Ideology of the Party of the Future

«After disintegration of the sovietcommunist block, disintegration of theUSSR itself and destruction of thecommunist social way of life in thecountries of this part of the world theepoch of the evolutionary decline andof total social counter-reaction hasbegun.

Social orientation of this counter-reaction is anti-communism, anti-socialism, anti-democracy, andanti-liberalism. The importantcomponent of this counter-reactionis artificially created, induced andstimulated total mind muddying,artificial reanimation of antediluvianideologies and invention of newideologies of the same intellectuallevel and orientation.

This evolutionary process becomes athreat to the existence of billions ofpeople on this planet as well one to thewhole of the humankind.

Can it be stopped? In my opinion itmay be possible only under condition ofcreation of the new ideology, comparableby its span to the Marxist one, butexceeding it by its intellectual level and byits degree of adequacy to the conditionsand demands of the third millennium,and under condition of appearance ofadequately strong organization ofsympathizers that will accept suchideology and will make its conscientiousobjective social transformations in thesense of ideals fo the future humanity, asdefined in this ideology.

The Party of the Future must notconsider itself as representative of certainpart of the population of the country, ofcertain oppressed, exploited, impoverishedetc. classes, i.e. like proletariat in the Marxistsense.

It must consider itself as a special kindof union that has one objective:

development of the new ideology(ideology of the future), propaganda ofthis ideology among citizensindependently of their social status, race,sex, ethnos, profession, etc.., growth ofnumber of sympathizers (personsaccepting propagated ideology) andunionization of such citizens in theframework of such objective for collectiveactions.

The party of the future underpresent conditions in place on ourplanet can be born exclusively on thetop level of intellectual and creative lifeof the contemporary human anthills(supra-societies).

The party of the future must not takepart in the day to day social-politicalactivity within the framework of theexistent social organization. It is none ofthe business of the opposition of suchlevel to operate for the good of theexistent social organization. Such a Partyhas a much more significant objective ofan epochal size, that is to lay foundationof the struggle of humanity for a socialideal alternative to westernism»

Alexander Zinoviev

«Ideology of the Party of the Future», 2003

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«Alexander Zinoviev’swhole life is an exemplar ofgenuine spiritual freedom.

He always was a faithfulson to his country»

Sergey Mironov,Chairman of the Federation Council of the

RF Federal Assembly (RF)

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About the murder of SlobodanMilošević

«The voracious Moloch of monstrousunfairness that embodies the Americanstandards of justice has performed itignominious deed.

That ultimate, human something thatinflexible freedom fighter SlobodanMilošević, walled in the prison of theHaage Tribunal, was deprived of formany years, has run its course, has cut asthe guillotine, his worn out heart,strained nerves and suffering soul havegiven in.

Slobodan Milošević was killed byunpronounced verdict of the HaageTribunal. Shame on all of you who silentlywatched this slow bloodletting, be cursedall of you who worked the buttons of themerciless machinery of the sterile fascismthat does its dirty job in the name ofFreedom and Democracy»

Chairman of the International Committee

to Defend Slobodan Milošević, Alexander

Zinoviev (in a telegram to the Milošević family,

11 March 2006)

On Russia’s Future

«I want the people of which I am a partof to survive as a historically significantentity under actual dramatic andunprecedented circumstances.

The objective and mercilessperception of this given reality is thenecessary condition for the survival.

I wish my compatriots to pursue suchunderstanding irrelevant of its horror.Otherwise, we will be simply expelledfrom history»

Alexander Zinoviev,

«Literaturnaya gazeta» newspaper,

28-31 December 2005

Why we are slaves?

«Why we stay slaves in spite of all? Theproblem «Why we are slaves?» is in itsessence the problem «Why we prefer to beslaves?».

Not to fight, not to climb upwards, notto swim against the current makes lifeeasier - for some time the freefall isperceived by some people as flying.

Not the desire to be free, but the desireto deprive other people of the desire to befree is the substitute that is fed to thecitizens today. This is so much easier thanthe fight for not being enslaved. Theresults of the struggle for the true freedomare seldom recognized and only by a fewafter many generations pass»

Alexander Zinoviev, May 1980

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Alexander Zinoviev alwaysremained a Russian patriot

who, devoted to Russianscience and culture, never

parted in his personaldestiny from Russia’s fate.

When he returned to hisMotherland, he returned to

a new fame too»Victor Sadovnitchi,

Rector of Lomonosov Moscow StateUniversity, member of Russian Academy of

Sciences, Head of International editorialboard of “The complete works of

A.A.Zinoviev” (RF)

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«I Have a Dream of a New Man»

«Something quite horrible hasoccurred – the human being can barely besaid to exist any more, it virtually vergeson extinction.

The fact that individual human beingskeep on getting born does not negate thegrim reality that human beings no longerexist as entities that influence the courseof historical events.

We must start from scratch here,commencing with level zero – thecreation of a New Man. A civilised,idealistic, utopianist, naїve, starryeyed,non-egotistical, human being quiteuntouched by shrewdness

Such people did exist in the days ofyore, they lived among us, we wereaccustomed to knowing such people.Rousseau and Locke dreamed of suchhuman beings, likewise Hobbes and

Descartes. Could they have all perishedwithout a trace? I think not. Nobody canactually leave the world – the onlydestination for aspiring emigrants is a newlevel of culture, a new level of intelligenceand a new level of morals. It is possible toemigrate into the inner space. I do notthink humanity will degrade completely,and we might as well hope that humanbeings remain as human as possible,notwithstanding the emergence of thenew savage, one covered from head totoes in electronics and gadgetry of allsorts. Yet this new savage remainsperfectly barbaric.

Still, for as long as we remain human,we have to realise that none of thesecybercreatures could ever replace themost important identifier of humanity –the fire of the mind. This is a wonder forwhich there is no substitute.

I see the emergence of a New Manbeing as the only hope we have as asentient species, and I do hope that this

miracle happens before too long. Allthese years we have seen the practical,businesslike, shrewd, cruel andegotistical people methodically trampledown everything that's decent andhumane about people. All I want is forthe New Man to survive, it is my fondestand most cherished dream. Otherwisethere is no hope for our survival as aspecies»

From an last interview given by A.A.Zinoviev for the Rossiyskiye Vesti

newspaper, 22–29 March 2006

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reformers in the like ofMartin Luther. You can find

those who dare to goagainst public opinion, few

are they, yet you can findthem. But one also has to

know where and how to go.Alexander Zinoviev was not

only courageous in hisdeeds; he also understood

what it was all about. Hehad the courage of

comprehension»Abdulsalam Guseinov,

Director of Institute of Philosophy ofRussian Academy of Sciences (RAS),

member of RAS (RF)

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Philosophy at Lomonosov Moscow State

University.

1968Dismissal as Head of the Chair following his

refusal to fire the lecturers, Viktor Finn and

Yurij Gastev who protested against Soviet

invasion of Czechoslovakia

1969Marries Olga Mironovna Sorokina

(Zinovieva) who becomes his trusted partner

and companion-in-arms for life

1974 – 1975 Seek and hide writing of satire novel «The

Yawning Heights»

1974Elected together with physicist P.L.Kapitsa

as full member of the Finnish Academy of

Sciences. Recognized as founder of the Soviet

school of logic

1976The first ever sociological novel «The

Yawning Heights» is published in the Swiss

publishing house «L’Age d’Homme». The book

becomes a bestseller and is translated in more

than 20 languages

1976Ostracism

A.Zinoviev books are banished from all

libraries of the USSR, his name is shunned from

all encyclopaedias and university programs,

open plagiarism of his ideas in professional

circles. Banned from everywhere, he loses his job,

and is stripped of all his academic titles. He is

dismissed from MSU, disqualified from

professorship, excluded from the communist

party and betrayed by his friends, colleagues and

pupils

1977European Charles Veillon prize awarded for

«The Yawning Heights» (Le Prix EuropОen de

l'Essai Charles Veillon)

This prize is attributed for a book of creative

cumulus that has witness value and proposes an

example of productive critic of modern

societies, their ideologies and way of life

1978Publication in the West of the sociological

novel «The Radiant Future»

1978A. Zinoviev is stripped of his soviet

citizenship and under threat of arrest expelled

together with his family from the USSR to FRG

1978 – 1999 Forced exile in FRG

A. Zinoviev and his family live in Munich. He

pursues his literary and scientific work,

sociological research, works as professor at the

Chair of logic at Munich University. He survives 4

attempts at his life by unspecified secret services

1978French Medici prize ( Prix MОdicis

Оtranger) for literature in the nomination «for

foreign writers» awarded for his novel «The

Yawning Heights»

1978Election as a full member of Italian

Academy of Sciences

1979 – 1983 Publishes a number of sociological novels

and stories further developing the plot and

ideas of «The Yawning Heights»: «On the

Threshold of Paradise» (1979), «The Yellow

House» (1980), «Homo Sovieticus» (1982) ,

«Para Bellum» (1982), «The Wings of Our

Youth» (1983)

1982Laureate of the Alexis de Tocqueville Prize.

This prestigious prize for sociological research is

awarded for his tractate «Communism as reality»

He is the first to develop a scientific theory

of real-life communism, the first to predict the

inevitability of the future crisis of communist

system and its type, the first to give a scientific

description of the modern Western society –

«Westernism» in his terminology, the first to

conclude the existence and to describe the

evolutionary upheaval in the second half of

XXth century, the first to describe the reasons

and results of the anticommunist plot in Russia,

the first to describe post-Soviet social

organization of society

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1922Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev is born

on 29 October 1922 in the village of Pakhtino,

Chukhloma region, Kostroma province

1939A.Zinoviev excels at school, and in 1939

enters the Moscow Institute of Philosophy,

Literature and History

1939Arrested and put under guard for

conspiracy to murder Stalin. Escaped from

«Lubyanka» NKVD (KGB) secret police

headquarter

1940 – 1946 He enrolls in the Red Army in 1940 and

takes part in the Second World War of 1941 –

1945, first in the cavalry, then as tanker and

later as fighter pilot

1946Student (1946 – 1951) and post-graduate

student (1951 – 1954) of Faculty of philosophy

at Lomonosov Moscow State University

1952Founds (together with G.Schedrovitsky)

the Moscow Circle of Logic, which becomes a

milestone in the intellectual life in the USSR

1953Joins the communist party of the USSR

(after Stalin’s death)

1954Candidate of sciences dissertation on «The

Rise of the abstract to the concrete» (based on»

Marx's Capital)

1955 – 1975 Senior researcher at the Institute of

Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the

USSR

A. Zinoviev is associated with a brilliant

page in the history of the institute and the

advent of the «Thaw» period. A young

generation of philosophers emerges, aspiring

to a new humanist interpretation of Marx

legacy and inciting to rethink certain

principles of social philosophy. The leader of

this intellectual reshaping is A.A.Zinoviev,

who base his research on methods of logic

and dialectic, proceeding from a firm

conviction that scientific and philosophical

research and his results are to be the key

factor of social transformation

1960Doctor of sciences dissertation on

«Philosophical problems of many-valued logic»,

professorship at Chair of logic at the Faculty of

philosophy at Lomonosov Moscow State

University.

1962 – 1975 A.Zinoviev publishes a number of books on

logic and methodology of sciences which are

translated into foreign languages.

Among the important results of A.

Zinoviev’s research are:

Solutions of some major problems of

many-valued logic, problems of logical

conclusions, development of an original

concept of complex logic; Foundations to the

general theory of signs, theory of definitions,

expansion the theory of induction, theory of

proofs, and construction of an empirical

geometry; solutions for most of the complex

logic calculations, for problems of consistency,

completeness, solvability.

A. Zinoviev outruns western logic by dozens

of years, the latter starting to work on these

problems only by the end of the XXth century.

He is considered to be one of the three leading

logicians in the world.

1965 – 1968 Head of the Chair of logic at the Faculty of

Olympus of Glory

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agreement and participation of the Russian

thinker Alexander Zinoviev. The Center has

opened a school of the social studies and a

school by correspondence. In 6 years of

existence over 200 students have graduated

from this school, over 300 students registered

with correspondence courses

1999 – 2006 Professorship at the Chair of Ethics at the

faculty of Philosophy of MSU

Professorship in the Institute of Philosophy

at the Academy of Science of Russia

Professorship in Maxim Gorky Institute of

Literature

Lectures in numerous Institutes

During the years 1999–2006 A.Zinoviev

reads the following courses: Introduction to the

methodology of sociology, Ideology of the

Future,

Basics of methodology of social research,

Society and – Supra-society, Logical Sociology,

Logical Intellect

2000 – 2006 Chairman of Russian public Committee

«Freedom to the President of Yugoslavia

Slobodan Milosevic» in the Parliament of Russia

2001 – 2006 President of the Russian Intellectuals Club

Honorary Professor of Moscow University

of Humanities

Member of Russian Academy of social

sciences

Vice-president of the Academy of Russian

art of writing

Member of International Academy of

Sciences of Eurasia

2001«Man of the year 2011» by Russian

Biographical Institute in the nomination

«Culture» awarded for «extraordinary

educational activity»

2005Awarded The Star of Moscow University

(«For the service to the Truth»)

2005The Russian State archive of social and

political history (RGASPI) forms A. Zinoviev

archive. Original documents and manuscripts

are deposited for eternal storage

2005The book «The crossroads» heads the top-

100 rating of the texts of Russian social-

humanitarian writings (INTELROS group)

2006Conclusive works on «the sum of totals»

books, one that summarizes his scientific ideas

– a scientific testament for new generations of

Russian intellectuals – «The comprehension

factor» (published post mortem)

2006Alexander Alexandrovitch Zinoviev dies on

10 May, 2006. As recognition of his services to

Russia he is buried in the Novodevichy

cemetery in Moscow on order of the President

of the Russian Federation V.V.Putin

2007First publication of «ZINOVIEV». An

exclusive magazine»

Exibition dedicated to Alexander Zinoviev

«Go!» in the Moscow State Literature Museum

2008International editorial board of «The

complete works of A.A.Zinoviev» headed by

the rector of MSU Academician the Academy

of Sciences of Russia V.A.Sadovnitchy is set

up

2007First International Conference Zinoviev

Readings at Moscow University of Humanities

2007 – 2010 Zinoviev Readings are held in Paris

(France), Donetzk (Ukraine), Dnepropetrovsk

(Ukraine), Stockholm (Sweden), St Peterburg

(Russia), Glasow (RF), Kostroma (RF), Omsk

(RF), Piatigorsk (RF), Saratov (RF), Sofia

(Bulgaria), Oxford, Glasgow (UK), Manila

(Philippines)

2008Post mortem decoration with title and

medal of the «honorary citizen of Kostroma».

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1984Elected as the full member of Bavarian

Academy of Arts

1984 – 1986 Honorary citizenship of a number of

European cities: 1984 – Ravenna (Italy), 1986

– Orange (France), 1986 – Avignon (France)

Reaches worldwide recognition. He

becomes a regular guest to some of the most

worldwide popular TV programs with many

hours of live air. Some European cities hold

literary festivals in honour of Alexander

Zinoviev. His books are published in 26

languages totalling over 3 million copies.

Academician Zinoviev becomes a visiting

professor of major universities, holds public

lectures and meetings with his readership. He

is regarded as an international independent

authority, consults on their demand heads of

state and presidents

1988Honorary professorship at the University of

Santiago de Chile

1990Reinstalled in the citizenship of the USSR by

the decision of the Presidium of the Supreme

Council of USSR

1990History making live TV dispute on French

channel Antenne 2 – perceived by millions of

European audiences as a true duel between

Russian thinker Alexander Zinoviev and Soviet

politician Boris Yeltsin

According to the sources close to the first

president of Russia after this encounter decided

never again to take part in live TV political

debates. All Russian presidents still keep to this

line

1991Defines the fall of the USSR as «the greatest

social catastrophe of the XXth century» and

USSR as the «apex of 1000 years of the history

of Russia»

1994 – 2006Analysis of Western societies, criticism of

global capitalism, forecasts of the world crisis.

Publishes a research book «The West» (1994),

the anti-utopian novel «The Human anthill»

(1997), «On the way to supra-society» (2000)

1992Awarded the Tevere literary prize by Italian

Center for Dissemination of Arts and Culture

(Cidac)

1997State Archives of Bremen sets up A.

Zinoviev archive

The works of A.Zinoviev as well as all audio,

video, photo, manuscripts, press articles, press

cuts, paintings, books, magazines, etc are

considered as part of national German legacy,

life, culture and sciences

1999A. Zinoviev returns to Russia with his family.

The reason of his comeback to Moscow is

the NATO aggression of the sovereign

Yugoslavia. Alexander Zinoviev considers this

barbarian act to be an eventual scenario of the

future of Russia

The Head of State did not welcome

A.Zinoviev's return to his Motherland. No

official apologies from the Russian powers

towards the family are extended. His Moscow

flat that had been confiscated in 1978 was not

returned

1999Following uncompromising position of

A.A.Zinoviev on NATO aggression of Yugoslavia,

the Nobel prize committee strikes him down as

a nominee for the Nobel prize for literature

1999He is nominated as Candidate of the party

«Union of Russian People» in the elections to

Russian Parliament (State Duma of RF), but is

refused registration as candidate by the election

board on a phony pretext, actually on direct

strict order from Kremlin

1999Alexander Zinoviev Research Center is

created The Research Center is created on

initiative of Mr. Lomeiko, assistant to the

director general of UNESCO and rector of

Institute of Youth (called MosGU now) with

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The city of Kostroma institutes annual

Alexander Zinoviev Prize

2008Second International Conference Zinoviev

Readings in Moscow Lomonosow State

University

2009Consecration in the court of the

N.A.Nekrasov University in Kostroma of the

monument to Alexander Zinoviev by

decision of the Governor of the Kostroma

Region Igor Slunaev. The monument was

created by sculptor Andrei Kovaltchuk,

decorated People`s painter, Head of the

Union of the Painters of Russia.

Inauguration of «Alexander Zinoviev

auditorium» at the N.A.Nekrasov University

in Kostroma

2009Russian-Bavarian Alexander Zinoviev

Research Center founded by University of

Augsburg (Bavaria, Germany) together with

Russian State University of Commerce and

Economy

2010 Third International Conference «Zinoviev

Readings in Russian Academy of Sciences»

2011Exhibition «Zinoviev ≡ Time ≡ Forward!» at

the Museum of History of the Moscow State

University

2012Preparation of 90th anniversary of the great

Russian thinker Alexander Zinoviev.

Organization of International Congress

Zinoviev Readings in Kostroma

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