Died 1918-05-30.
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Georgi Plekhanov
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Russian Marxist theorist, philosopher, and revolutionary. After beginning his revolutionary career as a populist, in 1883 Plekhanov established the Emancipation of Labour group, the first Russian Marxist political organisation. He is widely regarded as the "father of Russian Marxism", and his theoretical works were instrumental in converting a generation of rev…
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culture · Russian Marxist theorist and philosopher (1856–1918) · philosopher · politician · journalist · writer · historian · sociologist · economist · art historian · revolutionary · also Georgi Plekhanov, Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov, Georgy Plekhanov, George Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov, Plekhanov
Born 29 November 1856 · Died 30 May 1918 · Q182905
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1917· 2 entries
And his defensist stance during World War I were either ignored or condemned
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Plekhanov did everything he could to stem the tide of class struggle and to promote a coalition of all "live forces" of the nation against the external enemy
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1914· 1 entry
Plekhanov adopted a staunchly "defensist" position, supporting the Allied cause against the Central Powers
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1900· 2 entries
Collaborated with Lenin in founding the party newspaper Iskra, and at the party's Second Congress in 1903, initially sided with Lenin's Bolshevik faction
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Plekhanov published his Vademecum for the Editors of Rabochee Delo, a blistering critique that denounced the Economists for their theoretical errors and their abandonment of revolutionary principles
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1895· 1 entry
Of Plekhanov's book, On the Development of the Monistic View of History
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1883· 2 entries
In Geneva, Plekhanov, along with Axelrod, Vera Zasulich, and Leo Deutsch, founded the Emancipation of Labour group, the first Russian Marxist political group
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Plekhanov established the Emancipation of Labour group, the first Russian Marxist political organisation
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1879· 1 entry
Plekhanov entered into a relationship with Rosaliia Bograd, a 23-year-old medical student from a well-to-do Jewish family in Kherson
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1878· 1 entry
A new trend of political terrorism gained momentum within Zemlia i Volia, a response to government repression and the failures of rural agitation
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1873· 2 entries
After graduating from the academy, Plekhanov registered at the Konstantinovskoe Military School in Saint Petersburg
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Just as a revolutionary populist movement, later known as Narodism, was burgeoning
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1856· 2 entries
Born 1856-11-29.
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Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was born on 11 December [O.S. 29 November] 1856 in the Russian village of Gudalovka in the Tambov Governorate.
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1855· 1 entry
And Georgi was the first of their five children
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