Social and Historical Construct of Time in the Late Writings of Alexander Zinoviev .......... 347

The article is dedicated to the late essays of Alexander Zinoviev (1922-2006), Russian logician, philosopher and writer. Analyzing them briefly, the author of this paper discusses the Zinoviev’s idea of time as a social and historical construction which differs from the time of the classical Newtonian physics and changes according to the process of transformation of each society. Zinoviev asserts that the Soviet Union was the first in the world supersociety which lived for the communist future. After its collapse, a global capitalistic supersociety of the West dominated the world. In social and political terms it seeks to strenghten undemocratic aspect of the society and transform democracy into a camouflage for the totalitarian state rule. Zinoviev criticizes these two types of supercocieties which in spite of their differences carry with them a dehumanization. In conclusion the author proves that Zinoviev, hovewer pessimistic is his view about the evolution of the world, is opposed to the historical determinism and preaches a new humanism.