The Creative Work of Bertrand Russell in Russia

The article is devoted to problem of acquaintance of the Russian reader with the creativity of the thinker of the XX century Bertrand Russell in translations of his works and landmark publications Soviet and Russian researchers from the 1906 to the 60th years. Based on the chronology of the emergence of these editions, the peculiarities of his views on German social democracy, subject and method of mathematics are revealed, the essence of logicism and its connection with philosophy, knowledge of the outside world, justification of neorealism, reflection on the role of science and the future society, assessment of Bolshevism and Russia. The anti-war speeches of the thinker resulted in an organization together with associates of a number of committees and societies fighting for peace, participation in the resolution of the Cuban crisis and in the foundation of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Russell's work in bourgeois humanism and free-thinking has become a base in promoting secularistic ideas and practical morality in many countries.

Keywords: Bertrand Russell, social democracy, logicism and philosophy, neorealism, struggle for peace, free-thinking.