Red Hamlet

Table of Contents





Preface





1 Tula


1 Early Life


2 Radicalisation


3 Back in Tula


4 The Short Course of Economic Science


5 The Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature


6 The Second Edition of the Short Course


7 Agitation


8 Kharkov





2 Kaluga


1 Lunacharsky


2 Mach


3 Avenarius


4 Avenarius and Mach





3 Vologda


1 The Exiles


2 Berdyaev


3 The Debates


4 What is Idealism?


5 Perception from the Historical Point of View


6 Problems of Idealism and Studies in the Realist World View


7 External Relations





4 The Alliance


1 Pravda


2 Meeting with Lenin


3 Our Misunderstandings


4 The Alliance


5 Pamphlets


6 In St Petersburg





5 The 1905 Revolution


1 After 9 January


2 Novaia zhizn


3 Revolution and Philosophy





6 Empiriomonism


1 Empiriocriticism


2 The Meaning of Objectivity


3 Universal Validity


4 Socially-Organised Experience and Individually-Organised Experience


5 Parallelism


6 Life and the Psyche


7 The First Volume of Empiriomonism


8 Akselrod-Ortodoks's Criticism


9 The Second Volume of Empiriomonism


10 Plekhanov's &'thing-in-itself'


11 The Fourth Congress


12 The Third Volume of Empiriomonism and the Conflict with Plekhanov





7 Years of Reaction


1 The Fifth Congress


2 The Kotka Conference


3 Religion and Socialism


4 The Open Letter to Plekhanov


5 Materialismus Militans


6 Adventures of One Philosophical School


7 Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism


8 Socialist Society


9 Red Star





8 End of an Alliance


1 Ten Questions


2 The Paris Conference


3 God-Building


4 The Extended Editorial Board of Proletarii

5 Materialism andEmpiriocriticism


6 The Fall of the Great Fetish





9 Vpered


1 Party Schools


2 The Translation ofMarx'sDasKapital


3 The Platform of Vpered





4 The Tenth Plenum of the Central Committee


5 The Bologna Party School


6 Longjumeau


7 Cultural Tasks of Our Times


8 The Course of Political Economy


9 Engineer Menni


10 The Fate of Vpered


11 Pravda Articles





10 Tectology


1 The Secret of Science


2 Tectology as Science


3 Organising Methods


4 Regulative Mechanisms


5 The Stability of Forms


6 Divergence and Convergence of Forms


7 Crises C and D


8 Tectology and General System Theory





11 The Philosophy of Living Experience


1 Philosophy in Tectological Perspective


2 The Materialism of Modern Times


3 Empiriomonism


4 The Science of the Future


5 A Decade of Excommunication from Marxism


6 Reaction to the War





12 War and Revolution


1 Bogdanov in the War


2 The Science of Social Consciousness


3 World Crises Peaceful and Military


4 Disagreement with Skvortsov-Stepanov


5 Bukharin


6 Will It Be Tomorrow?


7 The February Revolution


8 Bogdanov in 1917


9 What Is It That We Have Overthrown?


10 The Commune State


11 On Party Unity


12 Questions of Socialism





13 Proletkult


1 Proletarskaia Kultura


2 Methods of Labour and Methods of Perception


3 The First Conference of Proletkult


4 Elements of Proletarian Culture


5 The Proletarian University


6 The Workers' Encyclopaedia


7 International Proletkult





14 The Final Decade


1 Bogdanov's Influence


2 Oppositions


3 Lenin's Offensive against Bogdanov


4 Bogdanov's Arrest


5 The Communist Academy


6 Blood Transfusion


7 The Struggle for Viability


8 A Martyr to Science


9 Obituaries





Conclusion: Bogdanov in Retrospect





Bibliography


Index