Yuri Semenov

Yuriy Ivanovich Semenov (September 5, 1929 – April 26, 2023) was a Soviet and Russian historian, philosopher, ethnologist, anthropologist, expert on the history of philosophy, history of primitive society, and the theory of knowledge. He was also the original creator of the globally-formation (relay-stadial) concept of world history and is a Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Historical Sciences,

Life and career Yuriy Ivanovich Semenov was born on September 5, 1929. He graduated from the history department of the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical Institute (1951).

Selected publications Semyonov, Yuri I. “O moem ‘puti v pervobytnost’.” Akademik Yu. V. Bromley i otechestvennaya etnologiya, 1960–1990. Moscow: Nauka, 2003, pp. 164–211. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Antroposotsiogenez.” Sotsial’naya filosofiya: Uchebnyi slovar'''. Moscow: Akademicheskii proekt, 2008, pp. 12–17. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “ ‘Proiskhozhdenie sem’i, chastnoi sobstvennosti i gosudarstva’ F. Engelsa i sovremennye dannye etnografii.” Voprosy filosofii 7, 1959, pp.137–147. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “O teorii pervobytnosti i o mnogom drugom. Chast’ 2.” Lichnost’. Kul’tura. Obshchestvo 8, no. 2, pp. 77–94. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Po povodu retsenzii Bakhty.” Narody Azii i Afriki 3, 1971, pp. 245–247. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Problema perekhoda ot materinskogo roda k ottsovskomu (Opyt teoreticheskogo analiza).” Sovetskaya etnografiya (now Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie) 5, 1970, pp. 57–71. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Problema istoricheskogo sootnosheniya materinskoi i ottsovskoi filiacii u avstraliitsev.” Sovetskaya etnografiya 6, 1971, pp.101–111. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “O materinskom rode i osedlosti v pozdnem paleolite.” Sovetskaya etnografiya 4, 1973. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “O spetsifike proizvodstvennykh (sotsial’no-ekonomicheskikh) otnoshenii pervobytnogo obshchestva.” Sovetskaya etnografiya 4, 1976, pp. 93–113. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Ob iznachal’noi forme pervobytnykh sotsial’no-ekonomicheskikh otnoshenii.” Sovetskaya etnografiya 2, 1977, pp.15–20. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “O razlichii mezhdu dokazatel’stvami ad veritatem i ad hominem, o nekotorykh momentakh moei nauchnoi biografii i epizodakh iz istorii sovetskoi etnografii i eshche raz o knige N. M. Girenko ‘Sotsiologiya plemeni’.” Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 6, 1994, pp. 3–19. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Po povodu stat’i O. Yu. Artyomovoi ‘Otechestvennaya teoriya “pervobytnosti” i sotsial’naya organizatsiya aborigenov Avstralii’.” Lichnost’. Kul’tura. Obshchestvo 7, no. 4, 2005, pp. 384–389. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Razrabotka problem istorii pervobytnogo obshchestva v Institute etnografii AN SSSR v ‘epokhu’ Bromleya (vospominaniya i razmyshleniya).” Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 6, 2001, pp. 3–20. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “O teorii pervobytnosti i o mnogom drugom. Ch. 1.” Lichnost’. Kul’tura. Obshchestvo 8, no. 1, 2006, pp. 80–98. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “O teorii pervobytnosti i o mnogom drugom. Ch. 2.” Lichnost’. Kul’tura. Obshchestvo 8, no. 2, 2006, pp. 77–94. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Perekhod ot pervobytnogo obshchestva k klassovomu: puti i varianty razvitiya.” Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 1, 1993, pp. 52–70. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Perekhod ot pervobytnogo obshchestva k klassovomu: puti i varianty razvitiya.” Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 2, 1993, pp. 57–74. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Diletantizm protiv nauki (razmyshleniya ob odnoi retsenzii).” Skepsis. Semyonov, Yuri. I. Vvedenie vo vsemirnuyu istoriyu. Vypusk I: Problema i ponyatiinyi apparat. Vozniknovenie chelovecheskogo obshchestva. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Teoriya obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskikh formatsii i vsemirnyi istoricheskii protsess.” Narody Azii i Afriki 5, 1970, pp. 82–95. English version: “The Theory of Socioeconomic Formations and the Historical Process.” Soviet Anthropology and Archaeology 4, no. 2 (1965). Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Marksistsko-leninskaya teoriya obshchestvenno-ekonomicheskikh formatsii i istoricheskii protsess.” Filosofskie nauki 5, 1973, pp. 3–13. German version: Sowjetwissenschaft. Gesellschaftwissenschaftliche Beiträge 2 (1974). Spanish version: Habana, 1987. Semenov, Yuri. I. “The Theory of Socioeconomic Formations and World History.” Soviet and Western Anthropology, 1980, pp. 29–58. Semenov, Yuri. I. “Socioeconomic Formations in Historical Process.” Philosophy in the USSR: Problems of Historical Materialism. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981, pp. 33–51. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Iz istorii teoreticheskoi razrabotki V. I. Leninym natsional’nogo voprosa.” Narody Azii i Afriki 4, 1966, pp. 106–129. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “K opredeleniyu ponyatiya ‘natsiya’.” Narody Azii i Afriki 4, 1967, pp. 86–102. Semyonov, Yuri. I. “Natsiya.” Slovar’ filosofskikh terminov''. Moscow: INFRA-M, 2004, pp. 350–352.