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Lenin and the Topicality of Revolution
As we have seen, Gramsci’s encounter with Turin was of paramount importance in his human and intellectual biography because he saw city as the...
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Bulgakov’s sophiology and the neopatristic synthesis
In 1922, many representatives of the Russian Intelligentsia, including many philosophers, were exiled from the young soviet state. Many left with the...
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David Riazanov and the Leninist stage of Soviet Marxism
Focusing on David B. Riazanov career and his pioneering efforts in producing a complete edition of the works of Marx and Engels, the article explains...
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Evald Ilyenkov and the imperialist unconscious in Soviet philosophy
Soviet Marxism is often characterized by the term ontologism . The latter could be defined as a totalizing assertion about material being as...
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Lenin and His Controversy over Philosophy: On the Philosophical Significance of Materialism and Empiriocriticism
This chapter discusses the philosophical importance of Lenin’s thought. It reevaluates Lenin’s philosophical legacy by examining his major and...
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Nikolai Lossky, Dimitar Mihalchev, and Rehmkeanism
The philosophy of Johannes Rehmke (1848–1930), also called “Rehmkeanism,” and the intuitivism of Nikolai Lossky (1870–1965) converge on essential...
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The Soviet Union as a Multi-national and Anti-colonial State
Lenin had only a few years to experience the actual practice of socialist governance, so he was able to see only its nascent forms beginning to...
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The Comintern and the “Italian case”
At the beginning of 1921, the Soviet state was in a very complicated situation, compounded by the destruction caused by the First World War and the...
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Ethical concepts in Russian Marxism of the first quarter of the twentieth century: A. Bogdanov, L. Aksel’rod, A. Lunacharsky
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Russian Marxism, which was rapidly gaining intellectual and political influence, faced the need to develop...
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Strategic Unity of Marxism and Empiricism
The chapter delineates a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism in the pre-revolutionary Russian philosophy and theory, which the author...
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Proletarian Monism
The chapter sets out with the claim that Bogdanov’s theory of proletarian culture was foundational not only for the ProletkultProletkult movement...
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Introduction
This book unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of...
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Russian Political Philosophy: Between Autocracy and Revolution
This chapter traces the development of Russian political philosophy, as distinct from both political science and political ideology, from the early...
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Reading Strategies for Hegel, Marx, and Laozi
The book begins with an explanation of the divergent reading strategies to be employed in reading its main antagonist (Hegel) and protagonists (Marx...
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Lenin and the crisis of Russian Marxism
This article attempts to understand the philosophical significance of Lenin’s work, Materialism and Empiriocriticism (1909), by putting it in the...
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Valentin Asmus’s historico-philosophical articles in the journal “Pod znamenem marksizma”: between philosophy and ideology
The article discusses the original critical dialectical approach of the Soviet philosopher Valentin F. Asmus. His publications on the heritage of...
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Politics, power, and bureaucracy through the lens of the conceptological approach: reflections on Viktor P. Makarenko, Sobranie sochineniy v 5 tomakh [Collected Works in 5 vols.]. Rostov-na-Donu; Taganrog: Izdatel’stvo Yuzhnogo Federal’nogo Universiteta, 2021
Historical experience shows that politics, despite all its shortcomings, is the best tool created by people to organize the common life of large...
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Marian Zdziechowski’s work On Cruelty (1928–1938). Between past and present
The following article begins with my recollection of the only academic conference on Zdziechowski that was organised still under the communist regime...