He was arrested twice for his political activities, in 1877 and again in 1878, but released both times after only a short time in jail. Thereafter, Plekhanov was forced by the fear of retribution to lead an underground life. On 6 December 1876, Plekhanov delivered a fiery speech during a demonstration in front of the Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg in which he indicted the Tsarist autocracy and defended the ideas of Chernyshevsky. Plekhanov was one of the organizers of the first political demonstrations in Russia. Political activity Portrait of Plekhanov by V. Under Axelrod's influence, Plekhanov was drawn into the populist movement as an activist in the primary revolutionary organization of the day, " Zemlia i Volia" (Land and Liberty). If you take so long to complete your studies in chemistry, when will you begin to work for the revolution?" This is a luxury! I said to the young man. He dreamed at the time of going abroad to complete his training in chemistry. One perceived in him a love for knowledge, a habit of reading, thinking, working. "He spoke well in a business-like fashion, simply and yet in a literary way. There in 1875 he was introduced to a young revolutionary intellectual named Pavel Axelrod, who later recalled that Plekhanov instantly made a favorable impression upon him: He died two years later but his body has been on display in the center of the commons ever since.Īfter the death of his father, Plekhanov resigned from the Military Academy and enrolled at the St. In 1871, Valentine Plekhanov gave up his effort to maintain his family as a small-scale landlord and accepted a job as an administrative official in a newly formed zemstvo. His mother later attributed her son's life as a revolutionary to liberal ideas to which he was exposed in the course of his education at the school. He remained a student at the Military Academy, where he was well taught by his teachers and well liked by his classmates, until 1873. Georgi's formal education began in 1866, when the 10-year-old was entered into the Voronezh Military Academy. Georgi was the first-born of the couple's five children. Georgi's 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. Valentin was a member of the lower stratum of the Russian nobility, the possessor of about 270 acres of land and approximately 50 serfs. Georgi's father, Valentin Plekhanov, from a Tatar noble family, was a member of the hereditary nobility. Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was born 29 November 1856 (old style) in the Russian village of Gudalovka in the Tambov Governorate, one of twelve siblings. Despite his vigorous and outspoken opposition to Lenin's political party in 1917, Plekhanov was held in high esteem by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union following his death as a founding father of Russian Marxism and a philosophical thinker.Įarly years Plekhanov in the 1870s He died the following year of tuberculosis in Finland. Plekhanov was an opponent of the Bolshevik state which came to power in the autumn of 1917. 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 Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky's principal antagonists in the 1905 Saint Petersburg Soviet.ĭuring 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 is known as the "father of Russian Marxism".īorn to a Tatar noble family of serf-owning landlords and minor government officials, Plekhanov grew up to reject his social class. Facing political persecution, Plekhanov emigrated to Switzerland in 1880, where he continued in his political activity attempting to overthrow the Tsarist regime in Russia. He was a founder of the social-democratic movement in Russia and was one of the first Russians to identify himself as "Marxist". Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov ( / p l ɪ ˈ k ɑː n ə f/ plih- KAH-nəf Russian: Гео́ргий Валенти́нович Плеха́нов, IPA: ⓘ 11 December 1856 – ) was a Russian revolutionary, philosopher and Marxist theoretician.
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