The historic-economic trend in Russian philosophy at the beginning of the XX century was a wide scope of different conceptions of social development. Their common feature was singling out the economical factor as the main objective of social development. In the course of historic-economic trend, economical determinism was formed as a variant of one-sided explanation of historical process. Economic materialism was the most popular tendency in historical-economical trend at the beginning of the XX century. Different conceptions of social development, created within the framework of historic-economic trend in Russian philosophy at the beginning of the XX century are analyzed in the article.

historic-economic ideas of Russian marksists the end XIX – beginnings ХХ of centuries in their formation, interrelation, development and influence on real history of the country, on revolution (N.I. Ziber, G.V. Plehanov, A.A. Bogdanov and V.I. Lenin’s doctrine, its schools)