Georgi Plekhanov

Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov November 1856 May 1918 was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the socialdemocratic 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 Trotskys principal antagonists in the 1905 St. Petersburg Soviet. He also opposed the Soviet regime which came to power in the autumn of 1917. He died the following year. Despite his vigorous and outspoken opposition t

Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was bornNovember 1856 in the Russian village of Gudalovka in Tambov Governorate, one of twelve siblings. Georgis father, Valentin Plekhanov, was a member of the hereditary nobility of Tatar ethnic heritage. Valentin was a member of the lower stratum of the Russian nobility, the possessor of about 270 acres of land and approximately 50 serfs. Georgis mother, Maria Feodorovna, was a distant relative of the famous literary critic Vissarion Belinsky and was married to Valentin in 1855, following the death of his first wife. Georgi was the firstborn of the couples five children.

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