Scientific Society of Marxists

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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY OF MARXISTS, founded in 1919 by a group of professors and teachers of the Workers' Faculty of Petrograd University including E. A. Engel, M. A. Silvin, N. A. Rozhkov, and M. V. Serebryakov, the latter at the head of the society from 1922, in order to engage the academic intelligentsia in studying and popularising Marxism. The society struggled against so-called bourgeois trends in sociology and philosophy by holding discussions and arranging small meetings and seminars. It published Notes between 1922 and 1928. The society was situated in the former Professor L. P. Karsavin's flat at 11 Universitetskaya Embankment from 1921. It was dissolved in 1930.

Reference: Клушин В. И. Деятельность Научного общества марксистов (1920-1924 гг.) // Очерки по истории Ленинградского университета. Л., 1968. Т. 2. С. 125-137.

O. N. Ansberg. Engel E.A.
Karsavin Lev Platonovich
Rozhkov Nikolay Alexandrovich
Serebryakov Mikhail Vasilievich
Silvin Mikhail Alexandrovich
Universitetskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 11
Клушин В. И. Деятельность Научного общества марксистов (1920-1924 гг.) // Очерки по истории Ленинградского университета. Л., 1968