the idea of a medical deontology, or ethics based on moral rules, versus ethics based on utilitarian rules decided on the best outcome for the greatest number of people. See also Dialectical materialism Dialectical Logic Fundamentals of Marxism Leninism Historical Materialism Marxist sociology Marxist philosophy Russian philosophy Activity theory Western Marxism Sources V.A. Bazhanov. Philosophy in Post-Soviet Russia (1992 - 1997): Background, Present State, and Prospects // Studies in East European Thought, 1999, vol. 15, N 4, pp. 1–23. External links Excerpts from Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy, From the Bolsheviks to Evald Ilyenkov (1991), David Bakhurst "Marxism-Thaxis" - Mechanists versus Dialecticians in early Soviet philosophy Russian and Soviet Women's Studies - Religion and Philosophy Gallery of Russian Thinkers edited by Dmitry Olshansky Education in the Soviet Union Science and technology in the Soviet Union 20th-century philosophy Russian philosophy