Monograph by Dr Maria Chehonadskih: ‘Alexander Bogdanov and the politics of knowledge after the October Revolution’

In this book, Maria Chehonadskih unsettles established narratives about the formation of a revolutionary canon after the October Revolution. Displacing the centre of gravity from dialectical materialism to the rapid dissemination, canonisation and decline of a striking convergence of empiricism and Marxism, she explores how this tendency, overshadowed by official historiography, establishes a new attitude to modernity and progress, nature and environment, agency and subjectivity, party and class, knowledge and power

Former Max Hayward Fellow Dr Maria Chehonadskih publishes her monograph on Alexander Bogdanov with Springer. More information here

Maria Chehonadskih is a Lecturer in Russian at Queen Mary University of London. Before joining Queen Mary, Chehonadskih was a Max Hayward Visiting Fellow at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford in 2019–2021. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University in 2017.