Political-ideological Context of I. I. Rubin’s Theoretical Activity
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https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu05.2016.206Abstract
The article is dedicated to 130s anniversary of prominent but undeservedly forgotten Soviet marxologist I. I. Rubin’s birthday. First of all we consider the tragic infl uence of sudden change of the Communist Party’s policy and ideology at the end of 20s–the beginning of 30s on I. I. Rubin’s and his ideas’ destiny. There were some landmarks in a process of ideological offensive on “rubinshchina”: the statement of the newspaper “Pravda”s editorial staff (October 10, 1929); I. V. Stalin’s speech in the First ALLUnion conference of agrarnik-marxists (December 27, 1929); V. P. Milyutin, B. S. Borilin. To difference of opinions in political economy (“Bol’shevik”, 1930, N 2); I. V. Stalin. A reply to comrades’ sverdlovtsy (February 9, 1930). The result of this ideological off ensive was a crushing defeat of a theorist-marxist’s school which was shaped under infl uence of I. I. Rubin’s works. This process has been analyzed on the example of the campaign which was launched in 1931 and was directed at discredit of fundamental I. I. Rubin’s work “Subjective school in political economy”. Some discussion problems considered at a conference in Institute of Economics (Russian Academy of Sciences) in December 15, 2011, devoted to 125th anniversary of I. I. Rubin’s birthday, have been examined in the article as well. Refs 24.
Keywords:
methodological discussion, I. I. Rubin, I. V. Stalin, I. G. Blyumin, mechanistic school in political economy, “right-wing opportunism”, sudden change in ideology and politics, “purge of ideological cadres”, marxology
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