The ''Philosophical Notebooks'' (, ) of

Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...

were a series of summaries and commentaries on philosophical works by Lenin. Included were works by

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Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealism, German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political phi ...

, Feuerbach,

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, and Deborin. Lenin's notes on dialectics played an influential role in Soviet and Chinese studies on contradiction and the unity of opposites. The Notebooks are often contrasted by scholars with Lenin's ''

Materialism and Empirio-criticism ''Materialism and Empirio-criticism'' (Russian: Материализм и эмпириокритицизм, ''Materializm i empiriokrititsizm'') is a philosophical work by Vladimir Lenin, published in 1909. It was an obligatory subject of study ...

''. The proper interpretation of the notebooks would play a major role in the Mechanist debate of the 1920s in the USSR, and the One Divides Into Two controversy of 1964 in China.

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