Georgi Plekhanov
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Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (November 29, 1856 – May 30, 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. Plekhanov was hostile to the Bolshevik party headed by V.I. Lenin, however, and was an opponent of the Soviet regime which came to power in the autumn of 1917. He died the following year. Despite his vigorous and outspoken opposition to Lenin's political party in 1917, Plekhanov was held in high esteem by the Russian Communist Party following his death as a founding father of Russian Marxism and a philosophical thinker.
Works
- Socialism and the Political Struggle (1883)
- Our Differences (1885)
- G. I. Uspensky (1888)
- A New Champion of Autocracy (1889)
- S. Karonin (1890)
- The Bourgeois Revolution (1890-1891)
- The Materialist Conception of History (1891)
- For The Sixtieth Anniversary of Hegel's Death (1891)
- Anarchism & Socialism (1895)
- The Development of the Monist View of History (1895)
- Essays on the History of Materialism (1896)
- N. I. Naumov (1897)
- A. L. Volynsky: Russian Critics. Literary Essays (1897)
- N. G. Chernyshevsky's Aesthetic Theory (1897)
- Belinski and Rational Reality (1897)
- On the Question of the Individual's Role in History (1898)
- N. A. Nekrasov (1903) In Russian.
- Scientific Socialism and Religion (1904)
- On Two Fronts: Collection of Political Articles (1905) In Russian.
- French Drama and French Painting of the Eighteenth Century from the Sociological Viewpoint (1905)
- The Proletarian Movement and Bourgeois Art (1905)
- Henrik Ibsen (1906)
- Us and Them (1907) In Russian.
- On the Psychology of the Workers' Movement (1907)
- Fundamental Problems of Marxism (1908)
- The Ideology of Our Present-Day Philistine (1908)
- Tolstoy and Nature (1908)
- On the So-Called Religious Seekings in Russia (1909)
- N. G. Chernyshevsky (1909)
- Karl Marx and Lev Tolstoy (1911)
- A. I. Herzen and Serfdom (1911)
- Dobrolyubov and Ostrovsky (1911)
- Art and Social Life (1912–1913)
- Year of the Motherland: Complete Collected Articles and Speeches, 1917-1918, In Two Volumes. Volume 1; Volume 2 (1921) In Russian.