Възгледите на Маркс и Енгелс за периодизацията на историята
The Views of Marx and Engels on the Periodization of History

Summary/Abstract: The author proceeds from the thesis that the concepts of the periodization of history express in a concise manner the essence of the philosophical-historical concept. Therefore, the importance of the study of the views of Marx and Engels in this aspect is understandable for the precise and multifaceted elucidation of their entire historical theory. In the literary heritage of Marx and Engels, we find a number of periodizations of history (implicit and explicit), which are not identical as regards their meaning, degree of development and scientific originality. “Basic” are those concepts which are expressed explicitly and represent the end result of the development of historical materialism. “Mon-basic” are periodizations that represent a working variant, a working stage of some of the basic periodizations (ie, they do not differ from them as regards the principle of construction, but only as regards the degree of development) or represent a periodization that has not been formulated by them, but has only been used by them. Therefore, “non-basic” are those periodizations which 1) arose in the period of the formation of the materialist view of history and which “disappeared” in their later works and 2) periodizations that were not developed by Marx or Engels, but were only used by them.

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