Frolov, in the course of his anecdote, also reported the following as an aside: “In those years dialectics was studied by a system that Pokrovsky had worked out at the Institute of Red Professors, a parallel study of Marx’s Capital and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind.” Secondly, nowhere else has the claim ever been made that Capital was studied along with the Phenomenology. Sill, a parallel study of Marx’s Capital, volume 1 and Hegel’s Science of Logic would be salutary for grasping dialectical logic. We know that Hegel’s larger Logic had an immediate impact on Marx’s critique of political economy. Further, when looking at A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, the economic manuscripts of 1861–3, i.e.