Abstract

This article describes the major tendencies in studies of German classical philosophy (GCP) by Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian scholars between the 1970s and the 2020s. These tendencies clearly divide into two periods, late Soviet (1970s- 80s) and post-Soviet (since 1991). In the USSR, GCP studies played both supportive and subversive roles in relation to Soviet Marxism. Beginning in 1991, GCP lost its direct ideological influence, although it supported both the growth of normativism (in a Kantian spirit) and the decline of historicism (in connection with Hegel’s thought). Throughout the past 50 years, GCP remained among the most attractive periods for history of philosophy, but current political changes undermine a longterm philosophical interest toward GCP