Georgi Plekhanov. Selected Philosophical Works.

CONTENTS

VOLUME I

PLEKHANOV’S ROLE IN THE DEFENCE AND SUBSTANTIATION OF MARXIST PHILOSOPHY (Introductory Essay) / V. Fomina

SOCIALISM AND THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE

Preface

OUR DIFFERENCES

Letter to P.L. Lavrov

Introduction

Chapter I. A Few References to History

Chapter II. Capitalism in Russia

Chapter III. Capitalism and Communal Land Tenure

Chapter IV. Capitalism and Our Tasks

Chapter V. True Tasks of the Socialists in Russia

Chpater VI. Conclusion

PROGRAMME OF THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC EMANCIPATION OF LABOUR GROUP

SECOND DRAFT PROGRAMME OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATS

A NEW CHAMPION OF AUTOCRACY, OR Mr. L. TIKHOMIROV’S GRIEF

SPEECH AT THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ SOCIALIST CONGRESS IN PARIS (July 14-21, 1889)

FOR THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HEGEL’S DEATH

FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION (FROM THE TRANSLATOR) AND PLEKHANOV’S NOTES TO ENGELS’ BOOK LUDWIG FEUERBACH AND THE END OF CLASSICAL GERMAN PHILOSOPHY

BOURGEOIS OF DAYS GONE BY

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MONIST VIEW OF HISTORY

Appendix I. ONCE AGAIN Mr. MIKHAILOVSKY, ONCE MORE THE “TRIAD”

Appendix II. A FEW WORDS TO OUR OPPONENTS

VOLUME II

G. V. PLEKHANOV’S DEFENCE AND SUBSTANTIATION OF DIALECTICAL AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST REVISIONISM (Introduction) / B. A. Chagin

ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF MATERIALISM

Preface

I – HOLBACH

II – HELVETIUS

III – MARX

A FEW WORDS IN DEFENCE OF ECONOMIC MATERIALISM

SOME REMARKS ON HISTORY

ON THE MATERIALIST UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY

ON THE “ECONOMIC FACTOR” (Final Version)

ON THE QUESTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL’S ROLE IN HISTORY ON THE ALLEGED CRISIS IN MARXISM

BERNSTEIN AND MATERIALISM

WHAT SHOULD WE THANK HIM FOR? (An Open Letter to Karl Kautsky)

CANT AGAINST KANT OR HERR BERNSTEIN’S WILL AND TESTAMENT

CONRAD SCHMIDT VERSUS KARL MARX AND FREDERICK ENGELS

MATERIALISM OR KANTIANISM

MATERIALISM YET AGAIN

REPLY TO AN INTERNATIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE FROM THE NEWSPAPER LA PETITE RÉPUBLIQUE SOCIALISTE (1899)

THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIAL VIEWS OF KARL MARX

THE INITIAL PHASES OF THE THEORY OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE (An Introduction to the Second Russian Edition of the “Manifesto of the Communist Party”)

A CRITIQUE OF OUR CRITICS

Part I. MR. P. STRUVE IN THE ROLE OF CRITIC OF THE MARXIST THEORY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

THE MATERIALIST UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY

ON A BOOK BY MASARYK

THIS THUNDER IS NOT FROM A STORM CLOUD

ON CROCE’S BOOK (1902)

KARL MARX

VOLUME III

G. V. PLEKHANOV’S CRITICISM OF IDEALISM AND DEFENCE OF MARXIST PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN HIS WRITINGS OF 1904-13 / A. Maslin

[Preface to the Third Edition of Engels’ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific]

Synopsis of Lecture “Scientific Socialism and “Religion”

Translator’s Preface to the Second Edition of F. Engels’ Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy

Patriotism and Socialism

On A. Pannekoek’s Pamphlet

Reply to Questionnaire from the Journal Mercure de France on the Future of Religion

Joseph Dietzgen

Fundamental Problems of Marxiem

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Death of Karl Marx

Materialismus Militans (Reply to Mr. Bogdanov)

On Fr. Lütgenau’s Book (1908)

Henri Bergson (1909)

On Mr. V. Shulyatikov’s Book (1908)

On the So-Called Religious Seekings in Russia

On M. Guyau’s Book

On W. Windelband’s Book (1910)

Cowardly Idealism (1909)

On the Study of Philosophy

Scepticism in Philosophy (1910)

On Mr. H. Rickert’s Book (1911)

On E. Boutroux’s Book (1910)

French Utopian Socialism of the Nineteenth Century

Utopian Socialism in the Nineteenth Century

A – British Utopian Socialism

B – French Utopian Socialism

C – German Utopian Socialism

Preface to A. Deborin’s Book: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Dialectical Materialism

From Idealism to Materialism

VOLUME IV

G.V. PLEKHANOV AND HIS WRITINGS ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT IN RUSSIA (Introduction) / M. Iovchuk

I – [WORKS ON N. G. CHERNYSHEVSKY]

N. G. CHERNYSHEVSKY, Introduction [To the 1894 German Edition of the Book]

N. G. CHERNYSHEVSKY [1890]

[ADDENDA FOR THE GERMAN EDITION OF THE BOOK N. G. CHERNYSHEVSKY (1894)]

N. G. CHERNYSHEVSKY [1909]

Introduction

PART ONE. N. G. Chernyshevsky’s Philosophical, Historical and Literary Views

CHERNYSHEVSKY IN SIBERIA [1913]

II – [WORKS ON V. G. BELINSKY]

BELINSKY AND RATIONAL REALITY [1897]

V. G. BELINSKY [1898]

VISSARION GRIGORYEVICH BELINSKY (1811-48) [1909]

ON BELINSKY [1910]

III – [WORKS ON A. I. HERZEN]

HERZEN AND SERFDOM [1911]

HERZEN’S PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS [1912]

SPEECH BY A. I. HERZEN’S GRAVESIDE IN NICE [1912]

IV – [REVIEWS]

P. Y. CHAADAYEV [1908]

ON M. HERSCHENSOHN’S BOOK THE HISTORY OF YOUNG RUSSIA [1908]

ON M. HERSCHENSOHN’S BOOK HISTORICAL NOTES [1910]

ON V. Y. BOGUCHARSKY’S BOOK A. I. HERZEN [1912]

VOLUME V

G. V. PLEKHANOV’S VIEWS OF AESTHETICS (Introduction) / V. Shcherbina

Gl. I. USPENSKY [1888]

S. KARONIN [1890]

N. I. NAUMOV [1897]

A. L. VOLYNSKY [1897]

V. G. BELINSKY’S LITERARY VIEWS [1897]

N. G. CHERNYSHEVSKY’S AESTHETIC THEORY [1897]

UNADDRESSED LETTERS [1899-1900]

NOTES FOR A LECTURE ON ART [1904]

FRENCH DRAMA AND FRENCH PAINTING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FROM THE SOCIOLOGICAL VIEWPOINT [1905]

THE PROLETARIAN MOVEMENT AND BOURGEOIS ART [1905]

HENRIK IBSEN [1906]

ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE WORKERS’ MOVEMENT [1907]

THE IDEOLOGY OF OUR PRESENT-DAY PHILISTINE [1908]

TOLSTOY AND NATURE [1908]

 “WITHIN LIMITS” [1910]

KARL MARX AND LEV TOLSTOY [1911]

DOCTOR STOCKMANN’S SON [1910]

DOBROLYUBOV AND OSTROVSKY [1911]

ART AND SOCIAL LIFE [1912-13]