Georgi Plekhanov
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Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov 29 November 1856 Gudalovka, Tambov Governorate, Imperial Russia |
| Died | 30 May 1918 (aged 61) Terijoki, Finland |
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (/plɪˈkɑːnɔːf, -nɒf/;Russian: Гео́ргий Валенти́нович Плеха́нов; IPA: [ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj vəlʲɪnˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ plʲɪˈxanəf]; 29 November 1856 – 30 May 1918) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the social-democratic movement in Russia and was one of the first Russians to identify himself as "Marxist." Facing political persecution, Plekhanov emigrated to Switzerland in 1880, where he continued in his political activity attempting to overthrow the Tsarist regime in Russia.
During World War I Plekhanov rallied to the cause of the Entente powers against Germany and he returned home to Russia following the 1917 February Revolution. Although he supported the Bolshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903, Plekhanov soon rejected the idea of democratic centralism, and became one of Lenin and Trotsky's principal antagonists in the 1905 St. Petersburg Soviet.
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