@article{Ryzhkovskyi_2018, title={World History as Revolution: Boris Porshnev and the Experience of Dialectical Defeat}, volume={6}, url={https://stasisjournal.net/index.php/journal/article/view/111}, DOI={10.33280/2310-3817-2018-6-2-176-197}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>This article provides a comprehensive presentation of the most remarkable engagement with the intellectual genre of world history in the Soviet era — the hitherto unknown project Critique of Human History by the famous Soviet Marxist thinker Boris Porshnev. Porshnev’s synthesis of negative dialectics and historical materialism transposed the negativity of revolutionary defeat in Stalinist Russia into a radical teleological perspective, which conceived of world history as a single, cognitive and political, revolution. The article presents multiple institutional, cultural, and ideological contexts from the Soviet period that pertained to Porshnev’s experience of revolutionary defeat, argues for the crucial importance of the historical approach in appropriating the intellectual legacy of the Revolution, all the while highlighting the relevance of Porshnev’s thought for present-day discussions in philosophy, anthropology, and history.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div&gt;}, number={2}, journal={Stasis}, author={Ryzhkovskyi, Vladimir}, year={2018}, month={Dec.} }