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Georgi Plekhanov

Revolutionary thinker often called the father of Russian Marxism

Did you know?Despite his revolutionary roots, he strongly opposed the Bolshevik seizure of power during the Russian Revolution in 1917.

Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (Russian: Георгий Валентинович Плеханов; 11 December 1856 – 30 May 1918) was a Russian Marxist theorist, philosopher, and revolutionary.

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61
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