PRESENTATION OUTLINE
GEORGI VALENTINOVICH PLEKHANOV
Plekhanov 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."
Plekhanov born November 29, 1856 in a family of a retired captain. He received his military education. Knew many languages and freely read any literature. Was a member of the organization "Land and Freedom". Plekhanov was a determined opponent as state terror against the revolutionaries, and terrorism on their part in relation to the government. In 1880 Plekhanov left Russia.
In exile, he continued to engage in theoretical activities. It is very fond of the ideas of Marx. Plekhanov Russian translations "Manifesto of the Communist Party." He begins to develop Marxism on Russian soil, adapted it to Russian conditions. Plekhanov turned the scientific theory of Marx into a powerful ideological tool, an instrument of the revolutionary transformation of society.
Leon Trotsky, Plekhanov called "crusader Marxism." And this is largely true. Plekhanov defended the purity of Marxist principles and extremely jealous of any attempt to assassinate him, or even creative development. Inherited from the Plekhanov and Lenin and Bernstein. With the latter they became bitter political opponents, quarreled to the nines. Plekhanov taught the art of reasoning, Marxism put on a scientific basis. In 1905, Plekhanov was eager to come home, to the height of the first Russian revolution, but the trip did not take place because of a serious illness.
Plekhanov considered premature action by the workers - everything must be done by calculation and science. This is despite the fact that the enemy armed uprising as such he was not. Plekhanov returned to Russia after the abdication of Nicholas II and the February bourgeois revolution. What is happening, without any exaggeration, shocked him with its scope and unpredictability. Plekhanov still strongly condemns the Bolsheviks for inciting the workers and peasants in the instincts. He believed that it is necessary to closely rally around the Provisional Government and to bring the bourgeois reform to its logical conclusion, and the Soviets to dismiss as unnecessary, naughty and prematurity.
In assessing what is happening Plekhanov was merciless. He saw and understood perfectly what was happening, was horrified by the policy of the Bolsheviks came to power. Plekhanov was remarkably accurate in predicting saw far ahead. He realized that the ideals for which he fought all his adult life, came to a painful confrontation with reality. Plekhanov experienced deep personal tragedy. Plekhanov wrote a number of works, far ahead of its time. This is the work "On the question of the role of personality in history" .Umer George V. 30.05.1918g.
