Philosophical Notebooks
The Philosophical Notebooks of
Deborin[citation needed]. 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
.
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.