Red Hamlet: the life and ideas of Alexander Bogdanov

"In this first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. He examines the part Bogdanov played in the origins of Bolshevism, his role in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 and his conflict with Lenin, which lasted into Soviet times. The book examines in some detail Bogdanov's intellectual legacy, which, though deliberately obscured and distorted by his adversaries, was considerable and is of lasting significance. Bogdanov was an original and influential interpreter of Marx. He had a mastery of many spheres of knowledge, this expertise being employed in writing his chief theoretical work Tectology, which anticipates modern systems theory"--

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 2. Kaluga -- ‎1. Lunacharsky -- ‎2. Mach -- ‎3. Avenarius -- ‎4. Avenarius and Mach -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 4. The Alliance -- ‎1. Pravda -- ‎2. Meeting with Lenin -- ‎3. Our Misunderstandings -- ‎4. The Alliance -- ‎5. Pamphlets -- ‎6. In St Petersburg -- ‎Chapter 5. The 1905 Revolution -- ‎1. After 9 January -- ‎2. Novaia Zhizn -- ‎3. Revolution and Philosophy -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 8. End of an Alliance -- ‎1. Ten Questions -- ‎2. The Paris Conference -- ‎3. God-Building -- ‎4. The Extended Editorial Board of Proletarii.