Wassili Nikiforowitsch Ralzewitsch

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Wassili Nikiforowitsch Ralzewitsch (* 1893 in Odessa ; † 1957 ) was a Soviet philosopher.

Ralzewitsch studied at the Communist Sverdlov University in the early 1920s , then at the Institute of the Red Professorship . In 1929 he joined the group around Mark Borissowitsch Mitin . He published polemics against the Deborin group, thereby contributing to its destruction and to the politicization of philosophy in the Soviet Union. From 1933 to 1935 he was the editor-in-chief of the Leningrad magazine Литературный Ленинград . He was imprisoned for several years during the Stalin Purge . After his rehabilitation he resumed his academic work in Leningrad.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wladislaw Hedeler : Dialecticians and Mechanicists. How Marxism in the Soviet Union degenerated into a science of legitimation. Philosophical Conversations, No. 32, p. 40