Solomon Lvovitch Gonikman (; 1897–1979) was a Soviet philosopher.
Gonikman, a Menshevik-Internationalist in 1917, joined the Bolshevik party in 1919. From 1923 to 1924 he supported the Left Opposition.Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929. Gonikman became director of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Red Professors. During the Stalinist purges he was expelled from the party on 16 February 1935 and arrested on 7 April 1936. Sentenced to 5 years in the camps. After the war rearrested, he was freed in 1953 and rehabilitated on 18 August 1956.
Sources Yehoshua Yakhot: The Suppression of Philosophy in the USSR (The 1920s & 1930s) Marxists Internet Archive
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