Pavel Yushkevich

Pavel Solomonovich Yushkevich (; 29 June 1873, in Odessa – December 6, 1945, in Moscow) was a Russian philosopher. He was a Menshevik activist and participated as one of the Russian Machists in Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism in 1908. This publication prompted criticism in Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-criticism. By the 1920s Yushkevich abandoned political activities and worked at the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow from 1922.

Early years He attended Odessa High School, where he became active in a Marxist study circle. He later became a journalist.

Philosophical work Yushkevich saw no need for Marxism to be fearful of "bourgeois theories", claiming that if Marxism was as powerful as it purported to be, it would simply assimilate other theories rather than be assimilated by them.

Family life His son, Adolph P. Yushkevich, was a historian of mathematics.

Works 1907 Sovremennyi mir (The Modern World), 1907, April, St. Petersburg, 1908 Sovremennaya energetika s tochki zreniya empiriosimvolizma (Modern Energy in Terms of Empiriosymbolism) in Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism V. Bezobrazov & Co.: St. Petersburg