Joravsky David. Soviet Marxism and Natural Science: 1917-1932

London: Routledge, 2013. — 450 p. — ISBN10: 0415850789; ISBN13: 978-0415850780Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against established authority. The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first phase of Soviet Marxism. In this volume the author correlates the development of ideas with trends in the Cultural Revolution and against this background it is possible to understand why debates over general philosophy gave way to conflicts over specific sciences in the aftermath of the first Five Year Plan and why there was a genuine crisis in Soviet biology.The Pre-Revolutionary HeritageOrthodox Marxism and Natural Science
Lenin and the Partyness of PhilosophyThe Soviet Setting, 1917-1929Intra-Party Politics and Philosophy
The Cultural Revolution and ' Bourgeois' Scientists
The Cultural Revolution and Marxist PhilosophersThe Anomalous Rejection of PositivismMechanism as a Tendency
The First Challenges to Mechanism, 1922-1924
The Formation of Factions, 1924-1926
The Mechanist Faction: Propagandists and Philosophers
The Mechanist Faction: Natural Scientists
Deborin and His Students
Deborinite Natural Scientists
Social Theorists 10 the Deborinite Faction
Closing the Controversy, 1926-1929
'Classical' Authority and the Cultural RevolutionThe Great Break 1929- 1932The Great Break for Natural Scientists
The Great Break for PhilosophersPhysics and Biology in the First Phase 1917-1932The 'Crisis' in Physics
The Crisis in Biology