Background
DEMCHUK, Pyotr was born on June 11, 1900 in Gorodenka, now Ivano-Frankov Oblast.
DEMCHUK, Pyotr was born on June 11, 1900 in Gorodenka, now Ivano-Frankov Oblast.
1924 graduate Vienna Law Institute. 1927 completed postgraduate studies at Philosophy Faculty, Institute of Marxism-Leninism.
1919 joined Communist Party of Western Ukraine. 1925 moved to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics with a group of political emigres and lived in Khar’kov. From 1927 head, Chair of Philosophy, АП-Ukraine Association of MarxistLeninist Research Institutes.
Also head, Chair of Dialectic and Historical Materialism, Khar’kov Institute of Soviet Construction and Law.
Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.
Every Soviet citizen has rights to express his or her opinion, but it should be in accordance with the general interests of the society.
Correspondent member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1932. Communist Party member from 1925.