Bakhtin likely wrote Vološinov’s Marxism and the Philosophy of Language

Evidence

Vološinov, Valentin Nikolaevich, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), part 1, chap. 3. This work is generally considered to have been written by Bakhtin and published under his colleague Vološinov’s name for political reasons under Soviet rule; some believe, however, that it is genuinely by Vološinov or the result of collaboration between the two. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 789

Categorization

• CANDY: A delightfully librarian-worthy piece of trivia: one of the founding texts of language theory was possibly written under a colleague’s name to dodge Soviet scrutiny.
• DEFINE: Clarifies the disputed authorship of a canonical theoretical work.