Solomon Gonikman Explained

Solomon Lvovitch Gonikman (Russian: Соломон Львович Гоникман; 1897–1979) was a Soviet philosopher.

Gonikman, a Menshevik-Internationalist in 1917, joined the Bolshevik party in 1919. From 1923 to 1924 he supported the Left Opposition.[1] Gonikman became director of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Red Professors. During the Stalinist purges he was expelled from the party on 16 February 1935 and arrested on 7 April 1936. Sentenced to 5 years in the camps. After the war rearrested, he was freed in 1953 and rehabilitated on 18 August 1956.

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  1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1g69x88 Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929.