Vladimir Nikolayevich Sarabyanov

Владимир Николаевич Сарабьянов
Soviet Union state institutions Marxism–Leninism Soviet Union 1886–1952 ○ Natural causes

Soviet philosopher and economist who stood with the mechanists in the 1920s debates

Born in Astrakhan in 1886, he was a Menshevik until 1918 and in 1917 chaired the Astrakhan trade-union council. He joined the Communist Party in 1920, worked as an economist and from 1922 to 1930 at Pravda, and taught historical materialism and atheism. In the philosophical debates of the 1920s he belonged to the Soviet mechanists against the Deborinites, treating Marxism as "a world view in action", and was later criticized for seeing contradiction as an alternation of opposing forces and reducing the productive forces to technology. From the 1930s he headed the philosophy department of the Moscow Architectural Institute, and he died in 1952. He was the father of the art historian Dmitry Sarabyanov.

Also known as: Vladimir Sarabianov

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