Tektology - Energetic Materialism

The Bogdanov - Sultan Galiev Connection

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1. Bogdanov and Sultan Galiev2. Tektology and Energetic Materialism3. Initial points, questions, and hypotheses 4. Material, methodology, and current status5. Preliminary findings and new issues rising

Alexander Bogdanov, Empriomonism and Tektology

An idealist betrayal, or revolutionary upgrade to Marxism?

Bogdanov playing chess with Lenin in Capri. The photograph features Vladimir Bazarov (standing), Maxim Gorky (chin in hand), Zinovy Peshkov (standing to the rear), and Natalya Bogdanovna (standing).

Sultan Galiev, Muslim National Communism and the Colonial International

Treason and conspiracy against the Party or dedication and improvement of Lenin’s world revolution vision?

Sultan-Galiev in First All-Russia Congress of Communist Organization of Orient (into which Muskom was transformed)

1. Sultan Galiev, in a key article, written in 1925, claims to use ‘Energetic Materialist’ method; referring to a more radical and non-Eurocentric version of His-Dia-Mat

2. In his, 1923, auto-biographical testimony Galiev mentions A. Bogdanov, a popular teacher with whom he met in 1913 and formed a rev. org. in Kazan.

Departure points

Hypotheses

1. Sultan Galiev and Bogdanov likely to have a direct or indirect contact / relationship

2. With ‘Energetic Materialism’ Sultan Galiev was refering to Tektology; so he influenced by Bogdanov’s work when developing his strategy

1. To what extend the philosophy and methodology developed by Bogdanov did influence the political work of Sultan Galiev?

2. Were there any direct or indirect contact / relationships between the two names?

Questions

Methodology

● DUMA - OGPU - Comintern archives

● Manuscripts and speeches● Letters and biographies

● Testimonies

● Direct correspondences with experts

Material

1. Literature research2. Archival research 3. Text analysis4. Network analysis

Preliminary findings and rising new issues

Out of initial readings, private correspondence with experts and people working on the issue; like Kowalewsky, Kakinc, Reyhan, Tompsett, Blanc, Renault, Rowles, so on, and initial social network mapping...

Note: Although experts like Kakinc and Kowalewsky suggested that there wouldn’t be any direct contact or relationships between the two. Since the workerism of Bogdanov, his ultra left bolshevism, his views on the peasants; separate Bogdanovism and Sultan Galievism.

Closest and shared nodes and hubs in social networks:Time: 1913-1914, 1918-1920, 1920-28 Place: Moscow, Kazan, BakuPossible: Ufa - Sterlitamak?Person: Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Lunacharsky, Krasin, Pokrovsky,Possible: M. Vahidov? Organization: Socialist / Communist AcademyPossible: Colonial International?

Preliminary findings and rising new issues