The projected volumes are as follows:

Volume 1: Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism: Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View, The Science of Social Consciousness – OUT NOW (Hardback)

Written under conditions of tsarist censorship, Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature appears to be a dispassionate account of nature, life, the psyche, and society, based on the most up-to-date science, but, in fact, it has a Marxist goal: to defend the idea of historical materialism. After developing a thoroughly materialist, determinist view of reality, Bogdanov explains how forms of social labour determine the forms of human ideology. Cognition from the Historical Point of View explains the causal connections between labour, forms of cognition, and ideological constructs. Finally, The Science of Social Consciousness, written after the relaxation of censorship, presents a history of European ideological development from an explicitly Marxist point of view.

Volume 2: Empiriomonism – OUT NOW (Hardback, Paperback)

Bogdanov came to realize that the concept of ‘energy’ as the fundamental reality was as dualistic as the concept of ‘matter’, and he found a new basic for the outlook he had presented in Basic Elements of an Historical View of Nature in the neutral monism of Ernst Mach and Richard Avenarius. He then adapted their agnostic empiricism to his own determinist system, and elaborated his own philosophy, which he called empiriomonism, in a series of articles. These articles were collected in Volumes 1 and 2 of Empiriomonism. In Volume 3 Bogdanov contrasted his outlook with that of G. V. Plekhanov and showed how empiriomonism solved certain problems of historical materialism. All three books are included in Volume 2.

Volume 3: Toward a New World: Articles and Essays (1899-1906) – OUT NOW (Hardback, Paperback)

This volume is made up of three parts. Part One contains the articles included in the collection Из психологии общества [On the Psychology of Society] (1906), which Bogdanov employs the principles of empiriomonism to criticise Russia’s Marxist neo-Kantian idealists, to rebut their critique of historical materialism, and to develop his own understanding of social change. Of particular importance is the notion of socio-morphism – the idea that forms of thought are modelled on forms of labour and economic relationships. Part Two contains the articles included in the collection, Новый мир [New World] (1906), which continued his polemics against idealism and considered, on the basis of empiriomonism, what the coming socialist society would be like. Part Three contains Bogdanov’s contributions to the edited collection called Очерки реалистического мировоззрения (Studies in the Realist Worldview).

Volume 4: Political Writings, 1904-1918

This volume will include some of Bogdanov’s general writings on liberalism and Menshevism, but will be primarily devoted to tracing the divergence between Lenin and Bogdanov which culminated in the formation of the Vpered group of the RSDLP which contested Lenin’s claim to be the standard bearer of true Bolshevism. Materials will include Bogdanov’s analysis of the split within Bolshevism; his writings on the First World War (where he provided the first definition of “War Communism”); his commentaries on the February Revolution and on Lenin’s seizure of power and his interpretation of social and political developments after October 1917, notably his writings on the emergence in Soviet Russia of a “new class”.

Volume 5: The Fall of Great Fetishism: The Contemporary Crisis of Ideology

This volume will provide the philosophical aspect of Bogdanov’s break with Lenin. It will contain The Adventures of a Certain Philosophical School, Fall of the Great Fetishism (which includes Bogdanov’s response to Lenin’s Materialism and Empiriocriticism), Excommunication from Marxism, and a selection of shorter essays on philosophy..

Volume 6: The Cultural Tasks of Our Time: Essays on Proletarian Culture

Bogdanov’s key writings on Proletarian Culture, including The Cultural Tasks of Our Time, selections from On Proletarian Culture, 1904-1924, and various articles from the journal Proletarian Culture and elsewhere.

Volume 7: Writings on Socialism and Economic Science, 1904-1923

This volume includes items from Alexander Bogdanov’s works as a Marxist economist, an exponent of socialism, and a commentator on the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Some of these writings are directed toward working class readers, introducing them to the principles of socialism or to helping them understand Russia’s revolutions; others are aimed at an educated audience, explaining issues related to World War I, the first years of Soviet power, and economic science in general. Half of Volume Seven consists of the entire final volume of A Course in Political Economy, which presents Bogdanov’s most mature consideration of a number of problems in Marxian economics and his ultimate statement regarding socialist society.

Volume 8: Philosophy of Living Experience – OUT NOW (Hardback, Paperback)

The Philosophy of Living Experience. Materialism, Empiriocriticism, Dialectical Materialism, Empiriomonism, the Science of the Future. Popular Outlines, (1913; 1923) with the appendix to the 1923 edition, ‘From Religious to Scientific Monism’. This is Bogdanov’s summative statement of his philosophy that anticipates his ultimate philosophical achievement: universal organisational science.

Volume 9: Tectology: Universal Organisational Science

This will contain all three parts of Tektologiia: Vseobshchaia organizatsionnaia nauka, a pioneering work in systems theory, in which Bogdanov proposed that all physical, biological, and human sciences could be unified by treating them as systems of relationships and by seeking the organisational principles that underlie all such systems.

Volume 10: TBD