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Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and Bolshevik revolutionary. He was a polymath who pioneered blood transfusion, as well as general systems theory, and made important contributions to cybernetics.
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science · Russian physician, philosopher, and revolutionary (1873–1928) · philosopher · economist · physician · writer · poet · sociologist · journalist · science fiction writer · politician · revolutionary · also Alexander Bogdanov, Aleksandr Malinovsky, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Malinovsky, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, Aleksandr Bogdanov, Korsak
Born 22 August 1873 · Died 7 April 1928 · Q335142
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MutualArt.com: Alexander Bogdanov
Died 1928-04-07.
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Cost him his life, when he took the blood of a student suffering from malaria and tuberculosis
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Whilst visiting London to negotiate the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement, Bogdanov acquired a copy of the British surgeon Geoffrey Keynes's book Blood Transfusion
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Pravda published a decree denouncing Proletkult as a "petit bourgeois" organization operating outside of Soviet institutions and a haven for "socially alien elements"
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Bogdanov became a professor of economics at the University of Moscow and director of the newly established Socialist Academy of Social Sciences
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Wrote four articles for Vpered which provided an analysis of the World War I and the dynamics of war economies
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Following the political amnesty declared by Tsar Nicholas II as part of the festivities connected with the tercentenary of the Romanov Dynasty
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Bogdanov, Lunacharsky, Mikhail Pokrovsky, and their supporters moved the school to Bologna, where they continued teaching classes until 1911, while Lenin and his allies soon started the Longjumeau Party School just outsi
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Published a scathing book of criticism entitled Materialism and Empiriocriticism, assaulting Bogdanov's position and accusing him of philosophical idealism
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Joined Bazarov, Lunacharsky, Berman, Helfond, Yushkevich and Suvorov in a symposium Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism which espoused the views of the Russian Marxists
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Helped organize the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery with both Lenin and Leonid Krasin
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The Bolsheviks in Geneva sent Martyn Liadov to seek out supporters in Russia
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When they split with the Menshevik faction
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Graduated as a medical doctor and published his next work, "Basic elements of the historical perspective on nature"
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Particularly the latter's critique of Peter Berngardovich Struve
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Students rowdily demonstrated against a lecture by the history Professor Vasily Klyuchevsky who, despite being a well-known liberal, had written a favourable eulogy for the recently deceased Tsar Alexander III of Russia
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Born 1873-08-22.
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