Background
Novikov, Mikhail was born in 1876 in Moscow.
Novikov, Mikhail was born in 1876 in Moscow.
Graduated from Heidelberg University, 1904.
Lecturer at Moscow University from 1904, professor, 1916. Specialist on education in the Moscow City Duma, 1908-1918. Member of the State Duma, 1912.
Twice elected dean of Moscow University. End of 1920, resigned, protesting against communist interference in university work. Chairman of the scientific commission of the VSNKH. Expelled, 1922.
Settled in Czechoslovakia. Dean of the Russian People’s University in Prague, 1922-1938. After World War II, in DP camps in Germany.
Professor of Munich University. Moved to the USA, 1949, Chairman of the Russian Academics Group.
Religion is bad because it stops people thinking in a rational and objective way.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.