On the Marxist Philosophy of Education *

Lenin V. I. Selected Works (in twelve volumes); some separate editions in the Marxist-Leninist Library, and an incomplete Collected Works. New York: International Publishers Co, [A useful two-volume selection of Lenin's principal works, Essentials of Lenin, has been published in Moscow and is also published in London (Lawrence & Wishart)].

Karl Marx , and Friedrich Engels ,. Selected Works (in two volumes) and also separate editions of many of their works in the Marxist-Leninist Library, New York: International Publishers Co.

Joseph Stalin ,. Selected Writings and his collected writings on Marxism and the National and Colonial Question as well as shorter separate works. New York: International Publishers Co. Also a collected English edition of his Works in some twelve volumes, now in process of publication, London: Lawrence & Wishart.

B. Secondary materials of particular usefulness and clarity:

Maurice Cornforth ,. Dialectical Materialism: An Introductory Course (in three volumes), I, Materialism and the Dialectical Method; II, Historical Materialism; III, The Theory of Knowledge. New York: International Publishers Co., 1953-55; and London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1952–55.

Maurice Cornforth ,. Readers’ Guide to the Marxist Classics. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1952.

Maurice Dodd ,. Political Economy and Capitalism, New York: International Publishers Co., 1945.

Sidney Hook ,. From Hegel to Marx. New York: John Day Co., 1936. The only detailed study in English, although there are essays in such volumes as that edited by Lewis (below).

Otis Lee ,. Existence and Inquiry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.

John Lewis , (Editor). Christianity and the Social Revolution. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd.; New York; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936.

Herbert Marcuse ,. Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1941; and New York: Humanities Press, 1954 (second edition).

Franz Mehring ,. Marx Karl : The Story of His Life. New York: Covici, Friede, 1935; London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1950.

Howard Selsam ,. Socialism and Ethics. New York; International Publishers Co., 1943.

Howard Selsam ,. What Is Philosophy? New York: International Publishers Co., 1939.

Socialism and American Life, Vol. II, Bibliography. Edited by Egbert and Persons . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952. (This must be used with some caution. See, e.g., the very critical review of both volumes by Cohen Robert S. in Monthly Review, IV [December, 1952], 289–304.)

Sweezy Paul M. The Theory of Capitalist Development; Principles of Marxian Political Economy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946.

Vernon Venable ,. Human Nature: The Marxian View. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1946. (Certain passages in the first section of this chapter of the yearbook are taken from this volume.)

C. Illustrations of the Marxist approach to special problems:

Scene American : STEIN, GUNTHER. The World the Dollar Built. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1953.

Perlo V. American Imperialism. New York; International Publishers Co., 1953.

Capitalist culture: Christopher Caudwell ,. Studies in a Dying Culture and Further Studies in a Dying Culture. London: John Lane, 1948 and 1950.

China: Tse-Tung Mao . Selected Works. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1954; and New York: International Pnblishers Co., 1954.

Drama: George Thomson ,. Aeschylus and Athens. New York: International Publishers Co., 1951.

Great Britain: Dutt R. P. The Crisis of Britain and the British Empire, New-York: International Publishers Co., 1953.

Historical events: The English Revolution, 1640, Edited by Hill Christopher . London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1949.

Fagan H. , and Hilton R. H. The English Rising of 1381. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1950.

Ten Essays on the French Revolution. Edited by Jackson T. A. . Translated from the French. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1945.

India: Dutt R. P. India Today. Bombay: People's Publishing House, 1949 (second edition).

Literary theory: Christopher Caudwell ,. Illusion and Reality. New York: International Publishers Co., 1948.

Novels: George Lukacs ,. Studies in European Realism. Translated by Bone Edith . London: Hillway Publishing Co., 1950.

Philosophic schools: Wells Harry K. Pragmatism. New York: International Publishers Co., 1954.

Religion: Karl Kautsky ,. Foundations of Christianity. New York: S. A. Russell, 1953. (This is a new translation by Mins H. F. .)

Social relations of science: Bernal J. D. The Social Function of Science. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., and Paul Kegan , Trench, Trubner, Ltd., 1938.

Vera Fediavsky ,. Nursery School and Parent Education in Soviet Russia. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1936.

Jessipow B. , and Gontcharow N. Pädogogik. Berlin: Volk und Wissen Volk-seigener Verlag, 1953. (This is the only Western-language edition of the basic Soviet text on pedagogy. Some chapters have been translated, e.g., as a Bulletin of the (London) Society for Cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R., and also with editorial emendations as the book, I Want To Be Like Stalin. Edited by Counts and Lodge. New York; John Day Co., Inc., 1947. Despite its role in Soviet training of teachers, this book is quite inadequate on the work of Makarenko.)

Johnson William H. E. Russia's Educational Heritage. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Press of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1950.

Beatrice King ,. Changing Man: The Education System of the U.S.S.R. New York: Viking Press, 1937. (Weak on theory.)

Beatrice King ,. Russia Goes to School. London; Heinemann, for the New Education Book Club, 1948. (Weak on theory.)

Bert Macleech ,. Workers Education in the United States. Unpublished Doctor's dissertation, Harvard University, 1951, (One of the very few Marxist works in the United States that goes beyond superficialities.)

Makarenko A. S. Ausgewählte Pädagogische Schriften, Berlin; Volk und Wissen Verlag, 1952.

Makarenko A. S. . A Book for Parents. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954.

Makarenko A. S. . Einige Schlussfolgerungen aus meiner Pädogogischen Erfahrung. Berlin; Volk und Wissen Verlag, 1952.

Makarenko A. S. . Learning To Live. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing Co., 1953. (Original title: Flags on the Battlements.) (This is a sequel to The Road to Life. The English-language edition contains, as an appendix, a report of a discussion between the author and a group of readers about the issues of the book, held in 1938.)

Makarenko A. S. . The Road to Life. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1951; London: Collet's Holdings, Ltd., 1951. (The essential quarry of Marxist education.)

Makarenko A. S. . Vorträge über Kindererziehung. Berlin: Volk und Wissen Verlag, 1951.

Max Morris ,. Your Children's Future. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1953. (On the British educational system.)

Pinkevitch A. P. The New Education in the Soviet Republic. New York: John Day Co., Inc., 1929, (Still essential to understanding the Soviet educational scene.)

Brian Simon ,. Intelligence Testing and the Comprehensive School. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1953.

Maurice Shore , Soviet Education. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947. (This is a dull and unperceptive work, but it contains documentary materials not elsewhere available in English.)

Joseph Wortis ,. Soviet Psychiatry. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1950.

Periodicals B. : Current Digest of the Soviet Press. Washington: Joint Committee on Slavic Studies. (Especially the education materials as indicated by the quarterly index.)

Quarterly Marxist (since 1954; previously known as Modern Quarterly.) Interpretive articles. London: Lawrence & Wishart.

SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL, RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.S.R. (London): Translations and interpretive articles available from the Secretariat and sponsored by the Education and Medical sections in issues of; Education Bulletin, Medical Bulletin, Science Bulletin, and Anglo-Soviet Journal.