Pavlov Yushkevich

Pavlov Solomonovich Yushkevich (Russian: Павел Соломонович Юшкевич) (29 June 1873 in Odessa – December 6, 1945 in Moscow) was a Russian philosopher. He was a Menshevik activist and participated as one of the Russian machists in Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism in 1908. This publication prompted criticism in Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-criticism. By the 1920s Yushkevich abandoned political activities and worked at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow from 1922.

He attended Odessa High School, where he became active in a Marx study circle. However he was arrested and jailed before being sent to exile in Kishinev, where he showed particular interest in mathematics. He went into exile in France and studied mathematics at the Sorbonne, Paris. Upon graduation he returned to Odessa. Here he had to attend lectures to gsin a qualification recognised in Russia. He later became a journalist.

Yushkevich saw no need for Marxism to be fearful of "bourgeois theories" claiming that if Marxism was as powerful as claimed it would simply assimilate other theories rather than be assimilated by them.

His son, Adolph P. Yushkevich, was a historian of mathematics.

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