Outstanding Russian socialist and political theorist P. M. Abovin-Egides (to the 100th anniversary of the birthday)

P.M. Abovin-Egides was theorist and practitioner of the innovative model of "socialist self-administration". His political socialization P.M. Abovin-Egides took place in Soviet Union that led to his formation as a young communist (komsomolets) and later as a dissident communist. He volunteered for the front, was taken prisoner, but escaped and eventually received 10 years "for treason", 7 years of which he spent in the camps. After rehab he joined the party, led the collective farm (kolkhoz) and having analyzed his management practices he made a conclusion about the possibility of building socialism from below on the basis of selfgovernment. After returning to the University he made his PhD in philosophical sciences with the theme: "The meaning of life problem and its solution in Marxist ethics", prepared innovative monograph. At the end of the 1960s he joined the dissident movement. In their manuscripts, P.M. Abovin-Egides argued in his manuscripts that Soviet socialism was not built, since socialism and democracy in their authenticity are impossible without each other. Nihilistic assessment of real socialism was contrary to the official doctrine of Soviet Marxism and therefore the authorities decided to isolate the author in a mental hospital. After his release in the 1970s he organized the oppositional socialist magazine "The Search", for which he was actually expelled from the USSR. P.M. Abovin-Egides continued his socio-philosophical research in France, producing typographically old and new "The Search." Back in the USSR, he published the book "Through Hell. In search of a third way” in 1991, which not only convincingly presented his concept of "socialist self-administration", but took a deep scientific analysis of the discussions in Soviet society during the period of "perestroika". Later P.M. Abovin-Egides harshly criticized Gaidar reforms and fiercely denounced the B. Yeltsin's shelling of the Parliament. Denying the Soviet system as "totalitarian statism", P.M. Abovin-Egides refused at the same time to extol the authoritarian regime of B.N. Yeltsin. In mid-September 1992 the podium of the constitutional Court of the dissident recalled the new government all its crimes - spread of poverty and unemployment to moral decay of the Russian people. His diverse activities, all his works, including the posthumous collection of his writings, "Our finest hour", convinced that P.M. Abovin-Egides wrote his name in the history of the world socialist thought.