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Bogdanov's role in prompting utopian views among the Leftists is important, since his sophisticated and unorthodox philosophy of knowledge was an early general foundation on which Bukharin, Kollontai, Lunacharsky and others elaborated their detailed structures for social revolution in the various aspects of life that interested them in particular. This is not the place to enter into an explanation of Bogdanov's theories" (his views on education and culture are treated in the chapter on illiteracy).

This was no mere accident. Before the age of Bismarck and the unification of the German states, pockets of isolated intellectuals survived under similar political conditions to those which prevailed in Russia until a later date. The German tradition survived amongst the Old Bolsheviks : there are many instances besides that of Marx and Engels of the continued borrowing of extremist social ideas from Germany in the period of War Communism. For reasons that were peculiar to Russia, her intellectuals were apt to seize upon the more extreme forms of West European thought.

In a country like Russia, cut off from the West in the first place by the great medieval religious schism, into which few ideas from outside were allowed to penetrate, in which literacy was very low, almost any idea which came in from the Westprovided that it possessed any degree of initial attractiveness fell upon marvellously rich and virgin soil, and was taken up with a passion hardly imaginable in the West. If there is a large vacuum, and a very fresh and untutored people, many of them eager for light, then almost any idea - no matter how fanciful or obsolete - is likely to find some ready response somewhere.

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