In Materialism and Empiriocriticism ( 1908 ), Lenin explained dialectical materialism as three axes: ( i ) the materialist inversion of Hegelian dialectics, ( ii ) the historicity of ethical principles ordered to class struggle, and ( iii ) the convergence of " laws of evolution " in physics ( Helmholtz ), biology ( Darwin ), and in political economy ( Marx ).

Kamenev was released from prison in 1908 and the Kamenevs went abroad later in the year to help Lenin edit Bolshevik magazine Proletariy.

He was elected to the RSDLP's Central Committee in 1907 and sided with Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split into Lenin's supporters and Alexander Bogdanov's followers.

In 1908, Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, also known as Lenin, was hosted by Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, also known as Maxim Gorky, a Russian, Soviet author, at his house near the Giardini Augusto.

In November 1908 Armand managed to escape from Mezen and eventually left Russia to settle in Paris where she met Vladimir Lenin and other Bolsheviks living in foreign exile.

So disturbed was Lenin spent much of 1908 combing more than 200 books to pen a thick polemical volume in reply — Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy.

Keller wrote The World I Live In in 1908 giving readers an insight into how she felt about the world.

After returning home he went on a lecture circuit and wrote The People of the Polar North ( 1908 ), a combination travel journal and scholarly account of Inuit folklore.

Robert Stanley Weir wrote in 1908 another English version, which is the official and most popular version, one that is not a literal translation of the French.

Baden-Powell wrote the principles of Scouting in Scouting for Boys ( London, 1908 ), based on his earlier military books, with influence and support of Frederick Russell Burnham ( Chief of Scouts in British Africa ), Ernest Thompson Seton of the Woodcraft Indians, William Alexander Smith of the Boys ' Brigade, and his publisher Pearson.

One of his students, Camille Vallaux, wrote the two-volume book Géographie sociale, published in 1908 and 1911.

In 1908 Sir Oliver Lodge, Principal of Birmingham University, wrote to his counterpart at Bristol, welcoming a new university worthy of:

The British stage magician Nevil Maskelyne wrote in 1908:

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

He incorrectly believed that an i on the end of a name meant " like " in French ; but Houdini, his own career and reputation established by that time, later lost his youthful respect for Robert-Houdin, believing that he took undue credit for other magicians ' innovations, and wrote The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin in 1908.

Baum also wrote sequels in 1907, 1908, and 1909.

From 1890 to 1908, 10 Southern states wrote new constitutions with provisions that included literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses that permitted otherwise disqualified voters whose grandfathers voted ( thus allowing some white illiterates to vote ), some with the aim and effect of re-imposing racially motivated restrictions on the voting process that disenfranchised blacks.

Christian Archibald Herter, an American physician, wrote a book in 1908 on children with coeliac disease, which he called " intestinal infantilism.

Other notable Feydeau farces include L ' Hôtel du libre échange, Le Dindon ( Sauce for the Goose, 1896 ) and the series of plays he wrote after 1908 grouped under the title " Du Mariage au Divorce " (" On purge bébé ", " Feu la mère de madame ", Léonie est en avance " and " Mais ne te promène donc pas toute nue ").

Maurice Maeterlinck, also a symbolist playwright, wrote The Blind ( 1890 ), The Intruder ( 1890 ), Interior ( 1891 ), Pelléas and Mélisande ( 1892 ), and The Blue Bird ( 1908 ).

* Herman Koppel ( 1908 – 1998 ) who wrote 13 symphonies, numerous concertos, and 20 string quartets.

Soviet player Alexei Pavlovich Sokolsky ( 1908 – 1969 ) wrote a monograph on this opening in 1963, Debyut 1 b2-b4.

Theodore Roethke ( 1908 – 1963 ) wrote of his poetry: The greenhouse " is my symbol for the whole of life, a womb, a heaven-on-earth.

Natsume Sōseki, who is often compared with Mori Ōgai, wrote I Am a Cat ( 1905 ) with humor and satire, then depicted fresh and pure youth in Botchan ( 1906 ) and Sanshirô ( 1908 ).

In 1908, the Austrian architectural critic Joseph August Lux wrote a book called Künstlerische Kodakgeheimnisse ( Artistic Secrets of the Kodak ) in which he championed the use of the camera for its cultural potential.

He wrote it on a 1908 Woodstock typewriter, which he continued to use in writing every book of his career.

In 1908, he wrote the book Following the Color Line, becoming the first prominent journalist to examine America's racial divide.

On 7 March 1908, Gandhi wrote in the Indian Opinion of his time in a South African prison: " Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised — the convicts even more so.

Albert Bigelow Paine, a New England author, wrote about fly fishing in The Tent Dwellers, a book about a three week trip he and a friend took to central Nova Scotia in 1908.

Gallé wrote a book on art entitled Écrits pour l ' art 1884-89 (" Writings on Art 1884-89 "), which was published posthumously in 1908.

Many of its ideas, motifs and scenes appear in adumbrated form in Proust's unfinished novel, Jean Santeuil ( 1896 – 99 ), though the perspective and treatment there are different, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story, Contre Sainte-Beuve ( 1908 – 09 ).

His most interesting philosophical ideas are divided into three works: Aesthetic ( 1902 ), Logic ( 1908 ), and Philosophy of the practical ( 1908 ), but his complete work is spread over 80 books and 40 years worth of publications in his own bimonthly literary magazine, La Critica.

His first published work was, Il sesso dal punto di vista statistico ( 1908 ).

Sapir's work on Takelma became his doctoral dissertation which he defended in 1908.

Many other examples of this like The Country Doctor ( 1908 ) can easily be found in his work.

Sorel promoted the legitimacy of political violence in his work Reflections on Violence ( 1908 ) and other works in which he advocated radical syndicalist action to achieve a revolution to overthrow capitalism and the bourgeoisie through a general strike.

His last published work, Abriss der Psychologie ( Outline of Psychology ) was published six years later, in 1908.

Particularly important was the work of Paul Ehrlich, who proposed the side-chain theory to explain the specificity of the antigen-antibody reaction ; his contributions to the understanding of humoral immunity were recognized by the award of a Nobel Prize in 1908, which was jointly awarded to the founder of cellular immunology, Elie Metchnikoff.

In addition, classical composers were influenced by the form with, for example, Igor Stravinsky's solo piano work Piano-Rag-Music from 1919, and Claude Debussy's Golliwogg's Cakewalk ( from the 1908 Piano Suite Children's Corner ), and General Lavine ( from his Preludes ).

While spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mathematically by one of his teachers, the mathematician Hermann Minkowski, in a 1908 essay building on and extending Einstein's work.

In his last scholarly work in 1908, Constitutional Government of the United States, Wilson said that the presidency " will be as big as and as influential as the man who occupies it ".

But in 1908 at the age of 57 he resigned his position to concentrate on writing up his Minoan work.

Gilbert and Sullivan trimmed the work for the London premiere, and Gilbert made further alterations up to and including the 1908 Savoy revival.

While he continued some work from the Board of Trade — for example, legislation to establish a Port of London authority and to pursue traditional Liberal programmes such as licensing law reforms — his first major trial in this role was over the 1908 – 1909 Naval Estimates.

By many accounts, it was decisive in the selection of Canberra as the site in 1908, as was a result of survey work done by the government surveyor Charles Scrivener.

When Shaw gave Leopold Jacobson the rights to adapt the play into what became the 1908 operatta The Chocolate Soldier with music by Oscar Straus, he provided three conditions: none of Shaw's dialogue, nor any of his character's names, could be used ; the libretto must be advertised as being a parody of Shaw's work ; and Shaw would accept no monetary compensation.

The result, with Whitmark and Charles Dickson writing the libretto, was Three Twins, which opened in 1908 and ran for 288 performances ( Harbach was paid a hundred dollars for his work ).

He tried to liquefy the last remaining gas, Helium, which condenses into a liquid at − 268. 9 ° C, but owing to a number of factors, including a lack of Helium with which to work, Dewar was preceded by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes as the first person to produce liquid helium, in 1908.

Arthur Conan Doyle also criticised the ' rubber regime ' in his 1908 work The Crime of the Congo, written to aid the work of the Congo Reform Association.

Tartarin de Tarascon has been adapted into cinematic form three times, in 1908, 1934, and 1962, with each work being titled after its point of reference.

* It's All in the Upbringing-A biographical sketch of Watson's life and work on the website of Johns Hopkins University, where he worked from 1908 to 1920.

When he returned to the subject many years later, the narrative became more personal: In William Rush and His Model ( 1908 ), gone are the chaperon and detailed interior of the earlier work.

In 1908 when Sir Thomas Beecham wished to perform the work " Apollo and the Seaman " by the British composer Josef Holbrooke ( who had included parts for several sizes of sarrusophones ), the sarrusophone parts had to be played by performers brought over from France.

By 1908, he had completed a new Chapel, which he declared to be his favourite work.

Another work of his is The Autumn Garden, which was published in 1908 by the London publisher William Heinemann.