biography
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Plekhanov, Georgiy Valentinovich
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pronunciation:
[plekahnof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1918)
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| biography:
| Marxist philosopher, historian, and journalist, ‘the father of Russian Marxism’, born in Gundalovka, W Russia. He left Russia in 1880, and in 1883 founded the first Russian Marxist group (the Liberation Labour Group) in Geneva, where he remained until 1917. He was a major intellectual influence on the young Lenin, but sided with the Mensheviks against Lenin's Bolsheviks, and denounced the October Revolution. |
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