Pavel Yushkevich

Pavel Solomonovich Yushkevich (Russian: Павел Соломонович Юшкевич; 29 June 1873, in Odessa – 6 December 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 and was active in a Marxist study circle. Arrested and jailed, he was exiled to Kishinev, where he developed an interest in mathematics. He then went into exile in France, studied mathematics at the Sorbonne in Paris, and upon graduation returned to Odessa. He later became a journalist. Yushkevich believed Marxism should not fear "bourgeois theories" and would assimilate them if it were powerful enough. His son, Adolph P. Yushkevich, was a historian of mathematics.