Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov

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Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov

Vladimir Bazarov ( Russian Владимир Александрович Базаров , pseudonym of Vladimir Alexandrovich Rudnev, Владимир Александрович Руднев * July 27 . Jul / 8. August  1874 greg. In Tula ; † 16th September 1939 in Moscow ) was a Russian philosopher and publicist.

Life

Basarow, the son of a doctor, graduated from high school in his hometown in 1892. From 1892 to 1897 he studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Moscow University . In 1900 he studied for two semesters in Berlin. From 1895 he was an active supporter of the Marxist social democratic movement. Despite increasing conflicts, he worked from 1901 to 1907 for the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and from 1904 for its Bolshevik faction .

From 1902 to 1905 he was exiled for the first time , to the city of Achinsk in the Yenisisk Governorate . He then stayed in Western Europe, after returning to Russia and being arrested again from 1911 to 1914 in exile near Astrakhan . After the February Revolution in 1917 , Bazarov approached the Mensheviks . He rejected the October Revolution of 1917 and left the Bolshevik Party.

Between 1905 and 1911 his most important works appeared, such as Anarchic Communism and Marxism , The Authoritarian Metaphysics and the Autonomous Personality , Mysticism and Realism of Our Time , as well as the work On Two Fronts , which is directed against Lenin's materialism and empirical criticism .

In the years from 1914 to 1918 he worked for the newspaper Izvestia ("News"), as well as Sovremennik ("Contemporary") and Novaya Schisn ("New Life").

During the Russian Civil War , Bazarov stayed in Kharkov , where he worked for the Menshevik magazine Mysl ("The Thought") and came out with criticism of the Soviet power. In 1920 he was editor of the newspaper Nasch Put ("Our Way") in Yalta . After the victory of the Bolsheviks, he gave up his political activities and came to terms with the new system.

In 1921 he worked at the Moscow Communist Academy. From 1922 to 1933 he was an economic functionary and employed in the state planning committee " Gosplan ". At the same time he was a member of the editorial board of the magazines Planowoje chosjaistwo (“planned economy”) and Ekonomitscheskoje obosrenije (“economic review”).

In 1930, Bazarov was arrested by the Political Police ( GPU ) and sentenced to five years imprisonment for alleged activity in “counter-revolutionary organizations” that led to pest activities in the economy .

After a year and a half imprisonment in Yaroslavl , he was exiled to Saratov , where he worked as a research assistant at the Research Institute for Economics. From 1935 he lived again in Moscow, where he translated philosophical texts and fiction for various publishers. Basarow died in 1939.

source

Maja Soboleva: Aleksandr Bogdanov and the philosophical discourse in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2007, p. 251

literature

  • Daehee Choi: Politics and Philosophy with Vladimir A. Bazarov: His concept of collectivism as a concept of the social and cultural revolution. 2000. ISBN 3-89783-159-7
  • EA Rudnev: Moj ded - VA Bazarov. In: Vestnik MIAB. No. 4, 2002. pp. 36-70
  • Maja Soboleva: The Critical Positivism of Vladimir Bazarov. In: (this.): Aleksandr Bogdanov and the philosophical discourse in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. Hildesheim 2007, pp. 73-82

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