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Yehoshua Yakhot

Yehoshua Yakhot was a Soviet professor of philosophy who later emigrated to Israel.

1919 to 2003Soviet Marxist philosophySupport for de-Stalinization

Born: 2 March 1919, Yaryshiv
Died: 21 December 2003, Tel Aviv
Occupation: philosopher, university teacher, professor
Education: Moscow University's Department of Philosophy

Yehoshua Yakhot was born in 1919 in Yaryshiv

Yehoshua Yakhot was born on 2 March 1919 in Yaryshev, in the Vinnitsa region of Ukraine.

He was a student at the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History when Germany invaded the Soviet Union. He volunteered for the Red Army on the day of the invasion and was wounded in a German air attack near Ostashkov.

He studied philosophy at Moscow State University and earned his first degree in 1943. He joined the Soviet Communist Party in 1946 and earned a graduate degree at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1947.

From 1947 he taught at the Moscow Finance Institute. He completed his doctorate in 1965 and became a professor in 1966. A Marxist, he backed the de-Stalinization that followed Khrushchev's 1956 speech and rejected Stalin politically.

In 1981 he was forced to emigrate to Israel. He died in Tel Aviv on 21 December 2003.