Background
Ivan Timofeevich Frolov was born in Dobroe village, Central Chernozem region, USSR ( now - Dobroe village, Lipetsk region, Russia).
Ivan Timofeevich Frolov was born in Dobroe village, Central Chernozem region, USSR ( now - Dobroe village, Lipetsk region, Russia).
In 1953 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. While studying at the Faculty of Philosophy at the same time attended classes at the biological faculty, participated in discussions about heredity.
In 1990-1991 - member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee. In 1989 -1990 - Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. In 1989-1991 - Chief Editor of the newspaper "Pravda". Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department of Philosophy and Law (1976),
In 1965 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1965-1968 - Assistant Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee.
In 1968-1977 - chief editor of the journal "Questions of Philosophy." In the 1960s and 1970s, he published a number of works in defense of genetics.
Since 1971 - Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov.
In 1976 he was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department of Philosophy and Law.
In 1977-1978, he was the executive secretary of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism. Since 1980 - Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the complex problem "Philosophical and social problems of science and technology."
Since 1987 - President of the Philosophical Society of the USSR, then - the Russian Philosophical Society.
In 1986-1987, he was the editor-in-chief of the journal Kommunist.
In 1986-1989 - the host of the series "Philosophical conversations" on Central Television.
In 1987 he was elected academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
In 1989, together with Academician AA Baev, he initiated the creation of the state program "Human Genome".
In 1987-1989 - assistant ideology of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (replaced in this post by Academician GL Smirnov).
In 1989-1991 - chief editor of the newspaper "Pravda".
In 1989 he was the responsible editor of the textbook "Introduction to Philosophy".
Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the 11th convocation (by-election). People's Deputy of the USSR in 1989-1991. Since 1989, he has been a chairman of the editorial board of the magazine Man (he was a creator). Since 1991 - the organizer and director of the Institute of Man RAS. Since 1992 - co-chairman of the Russian National Committee on Bioethics RAS.
In 1993 - Chairman of the organizing committee for the preparation and holding of the XIX World Philosophical Congress in Moscow.
Since 1993 - member of the executive committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies.
Since 2001, the annual Frolov Readings have been held at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Member of the CPSU since 1960, member of the CPSU Central Committee (1986-1991), Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (1989-1990), in 1990-1991 - Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee (1990-1991).