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movement based on a particular interpretation of Marxist theory whose proponents were active in socialist circles between 1894 and 1901. The movement's primary theoreticians were
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Legal Marxists became particularly influential after the arrest and imprisonment of the leaders of the revolutionary wing of Russian Marxism (including
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Vincent Barnett, 'Tugan-Baranovsky as a Pioneer of Trade Cycle Analysis', Journal of the History of Economic Thought, December 2001.
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was both inevitable and beneficial. As Struve put it, they provided a "justification for capitalism" in Russia.
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Legal Marxists held numerous open debates from the mid-1890s through the early 1900s, notably at the
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The Controversy over Capitalism: Studies in the Social Philosophy of Russian Populists
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Starting in 1901, Legal Marxists' abandonment of Marxism led to a break with Russian
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to his relatives dated June 20, 1899 in A. Ulyanova-Yelizarova. "Apropos of Lenin'
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Dilemmas of Progress in Tsarist Russia: Legal Marxism and Legal Populism
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while Berdyaev, Bulgakov and Frank eventually became philosophers of
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The First Russian Revisionists: A Study of Legal Marxism in Russia
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However, Legal Marxists became increasingly supportive of
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and they drifted toward liberalism with Struve editing
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Index

Legal Marxist
Marxist
Pyotr Struve
Nikolai Berdyaev
Sergei Bulgakov
Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky
Semyon Frank
socialists
narodniks
Karl Marx
capitalism
Russian Empire
Free Economic Society
Saint Petersburg
Novoye Slovo
Nachalo
Zhizn
Julius Martov
Vladimir Lenin
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
The Russian Factory in the Nineteenth Century
Eduard Bernstein
revision
Georgy Plekhanov
materialism
neo-Kantianism
religion
social democrats
Zemstvo
Constitutional Democratic party

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