Philosopher dismissed from Moscow University over his 1954 theses with Ilyenkov; later a Pravda foreign correspondent
Born in Moscow in 1924, he joined the Moscow militia in 1941 and was invalided by a severe concussion; he entered Moscow University's philosophy faculty in 1945 and took his candidate degree in 1953. In April 1954 he and his colleague Evald Ilyenkov put forward theses holding that philosophy should not try to solve the problems of the special sciences but be a theory of knowledge studying the laws and forms of scientific thought. The theses became the starting point of dialectical logic, but in 1955 a Central Committee commission called them 'a relapse of Menshevizing idealism'. Ilyenkov was barred from teaching; Korovikov received a party reprimand, was dismissed and lost the chance to work in philosophy. From 1964 he was a Pravda foreign correspondent in Africa and India.
Activities and affiliations
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1953–1954
Soviet Union state institutionsPhilosophy faculty, Moscow UniversityMain
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1964–
Soviet Communist Party and BolsheviksPravda foreign correspondent
Ideology and propaganda
Career Timeline
- 1941–1942Moscow militia; invalided by a severe concussion
- 1945Entered Moscow University's philosophy faculty
- 1953Candidate degree in philosophy
- 1954Theses on philosophy with Ilyenkov; dismissed from Moscow University
- 1955Central Committee commission condemns the theses as "Menshevizing idealism"; party reprimand
- 1960–1966Editor of the Short Geographical Encyclopedia
- 1964Pravda foreign correspondent