Books by Evgeni V. Pavlov
Papers by Evgeni V. Pavlov
When the Soviet state finally won the Civil War against its multiple external and internal enemie... more When the Soviet state finally won the Civil War against its multiple external and internal enemies, it found itself in a difficult (almost impossible) economic and political situation. Theoretically unified around Plekhanov's interpretation of Marxism, Soviet leaders struggled to fit the new existing reality of the success of their revolution and the old philosophical debates about its ultimate theoretical justification. The role of Hegel (and his understanding of the philosophy of history and dialectics) and his connection to Marx and Lenin emerged as one of the most important theoretical aspects of the emerging Soviet school of philosophy. Initially engaged as part of the so-called " mechanists versus dialecticians " debate, Hegel's dialectical heritage slowly but surely came to mean the inevitability of history's movement away from capitalism toward socialism. By the time Stalin and his supporters succeeded in their struggle for power, this notion of history and its dialectics became prevalent and was finally codified in the peculiarly un-dialectical presentation in the infamous theoretical insertion in the Party's official history published in 1938. This section – " On dialectical and historical materialism " – written by Stalin himself, represented the final word in the long and still considerably understudied history of Hegel's adventures in the early Russian and Soviet Marxist tradition.
The NEP Era: Soviet Russia 1921-1928, 2013
Perepiska [Letters], Mikhail Lifschitz and György Lukács, Moscow: Grundrisse, 2011; Pisma V. Dostalu, V. Arslanovu, M. Mikhailovu [Letters to V. Dostal, V. Arslanov, M. Mikhailov], Mikhail Lifschitz, Moscow: Grundrisse, 2011 Historical Materialism, 20:4, 187-198, 2012
Talks by Evgeni V. Pavlov
Teaching Documents by Evgeni V. Pavlov
Book Reviews by Evgeni V. Pavlov
Historical Materialism, 2018
A Review of "E.V. Ilyenkov: To Live by Philosophy", by Sergey Mareev
The latest book by Russian p... more A Review of "E.V. Ilyenkov: To Live by Philosophy", by Sergey Mareev
The latest book by Russian philosopher Sergey Mareev consists of two parts: recollections of his teacher Evald Ilyenkov, and reflections on some of the key themes of Ilyenkov’s philosophical heritage. The author traces several polemical lines related to the problem of the ideal (Ilyenkov versus Losev and Lifschitz), dialectics of the abstract and the concrete, the principle of historicism, as well as Ilyenkov’s interpretation of Spinoza and Hegel.
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Books by Evgeni V. Pavlov
Papers by Evgeni V. Pavlov
Talks by Evgeni V. Pavlov
Teaching Documents by Evgeni V. Pavlov
Book Reviews by Evgeni V. Pavlov
The latest book by Russian philosopher Sergey Mareev consists of two parts: recollections of his teacher Evald Ilyenkov, and reflections on some of the key themes of Ilyenkov’s philosophical heritage. The author traces several polemical lines related to the problem of the ideal (Ilyenkov versus Losev and Lifschitz), dialectics of the abstract and the concrete, the principle of historicism, as well as Ilyenkov’s interpretation of Spinoza and Hegel.
The latest book by Russian philosopher Sergey Mareev consists of two parts: recollections of his teacher Evald Ilyenkov, and reflections on some of the key themes of Ilyenkov’s philosophical heritage. The author traces several polemical lines related to the problem of the ideal (Ilyenkov versus Losev and Lifschitz), dialectics of the abstract and the concrete, the principle of historicism, as well as Ilyenkov’s interpretation of Spinoza and Hegel.