ABSTRACT
In sociology, in particular, there were extensive translations from the writings of German, French, English and American sociologists. Some Russian sociologists even argued that there were more translations of sociological works than original sociological literature. The strongest opponents of the changes were to be found in Petrograd, the city which housed the first university to offer sociology and the first Sociology Society. The number of courses of philosophy and sociology in vuzy diminished. From the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, sociology as an independent academic discipline virtually disappeared in the Soviet Union. Soviet philosophers are obliged to continue the work on the substantial criticism of contemporary reactionary bourgeois philosophical and sociological theories. In addition to the internal factors, a major stimulus to the revival of sociology in the Soviet Union came from contact with the more highly developed sociology of Eastern Europe and in particular with Polish sociology.
