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The elaboration of the dialectics of society on the platform of materialistic dialectics belongs to the most significant merites of the classics of Marxism. Due to this also the scientific theory of society historical materialism was created. The author points out the original contribution of Marx and Engels in this direction that they had elaborated namely due to the connection of theory with the objective interest and revolu ionary practice of the proletariat. The author appreciates highly also Lenin’s merits in the creative application and revolutionary development of materialist dialectics in new historical conditions. He stresses namely his original elaboration of the dialectics of socialist society and of the theory of antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions and the forms of their solution. In the last part the author analyzes critically the revisionist misinterpretations of the Marxiist-Leninist dialectics of socialist society.