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Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov ( November 29, 1856 ( O.S.) ( December 11, 1856 ( N.S.)) - May 17, 1918 ( O.S.) ( May 30, 1918 ( N.S.))) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the Social-Democratic movement in Russia. Plekhanov contributed many ideas to Marxism in the area of philosophy and the roles of art and religion in society.

Plekhanov was originally a Narodnik, a leader of the organization " Land and Liberty". After emigrating from Russia in 1880, he established connections with the Social-Democratic movement of western Europe and began to study the works of Marx and Engels. This led him to renounce Narodism and become a Marxist.

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In 1903, at the second congress of the RSDLP, Plekhanov broke with Lenin and sided with the Mensheviks. During World War I, he took a "nationalist" position (as opposed to Bolshevik's " proletarian internationalism"), calling for the defeat of Germany. He was hostile toward the Bolshevik Revolution.


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