Ivan Kapitonovich Luppol (Russian: Иван Капитонович Лу́ппол; (13) January 1896,

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– 26 May 1943,

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) was a

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philosopher, literary critic and academician of the

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Biography

Luppol attended the Faculty of Law of the

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, graduating in 1919. In the same year he worked as a propagandist and political worker in the

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and in 1920 he became a member of the Russian Communist Party (b). He then studied at the Department of Philosophy of the

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, being a member the Institute's first enrollment. His earlier works were about the philosophy of

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. From 1924 he worked at the Marx-Engels Institute and became director of its philosophy cabinet. Luppol was among the supporters of

Abram Deborin Abram Moiseyevich Deborin (Ioffe) (russian: Абра́м Моисе́евич Дебо́рин Ио́ффе; , Upyna, Kovno Governorate – 8 March 1963) was a Soviet Marxist philosopher and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Uni ...

in the philosophical debates. He was a professor at the Department of Historical Materialism at the Ethnological Faculty of Moscow State University from 1925 to 1931, as well as a professor at the department, and then head of the Department of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy of the Institute of Red Professors from 1925 to 1938. From 1929 to 1933 he headed the Glavnauka. Since 1934 he was Member of the Board of the

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. In 1935 he became a member of the directorate of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House). Director and one of the organizers of the

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(1935–1941). He was chief editor of the State Publishing House of Fiction. Elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department of Social Sciences in 1933 and an academician in the same department in 1939. Luppol was arrested in September 1940 and was held in the Saratov prison with

Nikolai Vavilov Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov ( rus, Никола́й Ива́нович Вави́лов, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ vɐˈvʲiləf, a=Ru-Nikolay_Ivanovich_Vavilov.ogg; – 26 January 1943) was a Russian and Soviet agronomist, botanist a ...

. Initially he was sentenced to death but his sentence was later changed to twenty years of forced labor. He died in the

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camp in

Mordovian ASSR The Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Мордовская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Mordovskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika'' ...

in 1943. It is said prior to his death Luppol was to marry Nadezhda Peshkova, daughter of

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

. Ivan Luppol was rehabilitated by the decision of the

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in 1956.

References

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