RedHamlet Historical Materialism Book Series EditorialBoard SébastienBudgen(Paris) DavidBroder(Rome) SteveEdwards(London) JuanGrigera(London) MarcelvanderLinden(Amsterdam) PeterThomas(London) volume 172 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/hm Red Hamlet TheLifeandIdeasof AlexanderBogdanov By JamesD.White LEIDEN | BOSTON LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:White,JamesD.,1941-author. Title:RedHamlet:thelifeandideasofAlexanderBogdanov/byJamesD.White. Description:Leiden;Boston:Brill,[2018]|Series:Historicalmaterialismbook series,ISSN1570-1522;Volume172|Includesbibliographicalreferencesand index. Identifiers:LCCN2018041942(print)|LCCN2018047903(ebook)| ISBN9789004268913(e-book)|ISBN9789004268906(hardback) Subjects:LCSH:Bogdanov,A.(Aleksandr),1873–1928.|Revolutionaries–Soviet Union–Biography.|Communists–SovietUnion–Biography.|Russia–History– Revolution,1905–1907.|SovietUnion–History–Revolution, 1917–1921. Classification:LCC DK254.B627(ebook)|LCC DK254.B627W472018(print)| DDC335.4092[B]–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018041942 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN1570-1522 ISBN978-90-04-26890-6(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-26891-3(e-book) Copyright2019byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopi, BrillSense,HoteiPublishing,mentisVerlag,VerlagFerdinandSchöninghandWilhelmFinkVerlag. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNVprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. ForNijole ∵ Contents Preface xi 1 Tula 1 1 EarlyLife 1 2 Radicalisation 4 3 BackinTula 10 4 TheShortCourseofEconomicScience 17 5 TheBasicElementsoftheHistoricalViewofNature 20 6 TheSecondEditionoftheShortCourse 22 7 Agitation 28 8 Kharkov 30 2 Kaluga 33 1 Lunacharsky 33 2 Mach 40 3 Avenarius 43 4 AvenariusandMach 51 3 Vologda 56 1 TheExiles 56 2 Berdyaev 60 3 TheDebates 64 4 WhatisIdealism? 66 5 PerceptionfromtheHistoricalPointofView 67 6 ProblemsofIdealismandStudiesintheRealistWorldView 76 7 ExternalRelations 82 4 TheAlliance 88 1 Pravda 88 2 MeetingwithLenin 99 3 OurMisunderstandings 103 4 TheAlliance 108 5 Pamphlets 112 6 InStPetersburg 115 viii contents 5 The1905Revolution 117 1 After9January 117 2 NovaiaZhizn 140 3 RevolutionandPhilosophy 143 6 Empiriomonism 145 1 Empiriocriticism 145 2 TheMeaningofObjectivity 146 3 UniversalValidity 147 4 Socially-OrganisedExperienceandIndividually-Organised Experience 148 5 Parallelism 150 6 LifeandthePsyche 151 7 TheFirstVolumeofEmpiriomonism 153 8 Akselrod-Ortodoks’sCriticism 153 9 TheSecondVolumeofEmpiriomonism 158 10 Plekhanov’s‘Thing-in-Itself’ 160 11 TheFourthCongress 163 12 TheThirdVolumeofEmpiriomonismandtheConflictwith Plekhanov 167 7 YearsofReaction 175 1 TheFifthCongress 175 2 TheKotkaConference 179 3 ReligionandSocialism 184 4 TheOpenLettertoPlekhanov 188 5 MaterialismusMilitans 189 6 AdventuresofOnePhilosophicalSchool 193 7 StudiesinthePhilosophyofMarxism 195 8 SocialistSociety 198 9 RedStar 200 8 EndofanAlliance 210 1 TenQuestions 210 2 TheParisConference 219 3 God-Building 223 4 TheExtendedEditorialBoardofProletarii 227 5 MaterialismandEmpiriocriticism 237 6 TheFalloftheGreatFetish 241 contents ix 9 Vpered 248 1 PartySchools 248 2 TheTranslationofMarx’sDasKapital 254 3 ThePlatformofVpered 257 4 TheTenthPlenumoftheCentralCommittee 261 5 TheBolognaPartySchool 264 6 Longjumeau 268 7 CulturalTasksofOurTimes 269 8 TheCourseofPoliticalEconomy 277 9 EngineerMenni 279 10 TheFateofVpered 281 11 PravdaArticles 283 10 Tectology 287 1 TheSecretofScience 287 2 TectologyasScience 290 3 OrganisingMethods 292 4 RegulativeMechanisms 295 5 TheStabilityofForms 297 6 DivergenceandConvergenceofForms 300 7 CrisesCandD 308 8 TectologyandGeneralSystemTheory 311 11 ThePhilosophyofLivingExperience 319 1 PhilosophyinTectologicalPerspective 319 2 TheMaterialismofModernTimes 323 3 Empiriomonism 330 4 TheScienceoftheFuture 332 5 ADecadeofExcommunicationfromMarxism 334 6 ReactiontotheWar 338 12 WarandRevolution 340 1 BogdanovintheWar 340 2 TheScienceofSocialConsciousness 342 3 WorldCrisesPeacefulandMilitary 346 4 DisagreementwithSkvortsov-Stepanov 348 5 Bukharin 352 6 WillItBeTomorrow? 353 7 TheFebruaryRevolution 355 8 Bogdanovin1917 356