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A.K. Voronsky 1920

G. V. Plekhanov

First Published: “Rabochii krai,” 30 May 1920;
Source: http://sovlit.org/akv;
Translated: by F. Choate, for “Art as the Cognition of Life”;
Transcribed: by Joseph Mount.

Plekhanov died in tragic circumstances. Before his death he parted not only from the most advanced detachments of the Russian working class; but even the majority of his recent co-thinkers abandoned him. War and the Russian Revolution hurled Plekhanov into the camp of his enemies of yesterday — opportunists, against whom he had waged a merciless and brilliant struggle.

Plekhanov died an intellectual outcast, despite his enormous and unfading contributions to the Russian and Western European workers’ movement.

The revolution is ruthless. Like Saturn it devours its children, without slowing its furious pace for even a second. It overthrows yesterday’s leaders and authorities, and tomorrow hurls them into the depths of political nonexistence. Our time is a cruel time, merciless and ungrateful. In the whirlwind of events, the human ind

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Georgii Plekhanov Was the Father Of Russian Marxism Who Disliked His Children

Very little has been written in the West about Georgii Plekhanov, although he was a key figure of the Russian and international socialist movement, performing the roles of philosopher, historian, and propagandist of Marxism. He was also one of the founders of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, the precursor of the Russian Communist Party.

In matters of Marxist theory, Vladimir Lenin regarded him as the ultimate authority. Although Lenin and Plekhanov ended up as bitter political antagonists, with the latter strongly opposing the October Revolution of 1917, the leaders of the new Soviet state published the works of Plekhanov on Marxist theory, which they saw as a vital educational tool.

Plekhanov may be a largely forgotten figure today. Yet some of the mistaken or polemical views that he expressed about the ideas of Karl Marx, or the history of Russia’s revolutionary movement, still shape our understanding of those questions today.

Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov was born in 1857 in the villag

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This is the first biography in a Western language of G.V. Plekhanov, the man who almost single handedly launched the movement that was to culminate in the Bolshevik Revolution. This study of Plakhanov's life, which spanned the eventful period of Russia's history from the Crimean War through the Bolshevik upheaval, illuminates the origins and vicissitudes of Russian Marxism. After a brief career as an active revolutionary populist, Plekhanov fled to Switzerland, where he embarked on a systematic study of Marxist theory. In two book published during the 1880's , he laid the theoretical basis of Russian Marxism, for twi decades the Russian Social Democratic movement centered around him, and almost all its leading personalities, including Lenin, began as his disciples, Plekhanov's main theoretical concept - the two stage revolutionary scheme - was largely discredited by the Revolution of 1905m and the breakup of the Second International and the Bolshevik Revolution sealed the fate of his orthodix Marxian theory. He died in Finland, an embittered fugitive from the Bolshevik regime. Ple