Plekhanov, George Valentinovich
Plekhanov, George Valentinovich
(1856-1918) Was a Russian Marxist who became the philosophical leader of the Menshevik faction of the pre-Revolutionary Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party, opposing Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik wing. In spite of what are regarded as his political errors, such as his support of the war of 1914-1918 and his negative attitude to the Revolution of October, 1917, contemporary Soviet thinkers regard Plekhanov’s works as containing valuable expositions of Marxist philosophy. Among his writings in this field are,
Our Disputes (1885),
On the Problem of the Development of the Monistic View of History (1895),
Essays on the History of Materilism (1896),
On the Materialist Conception of History (1897),
On the Problem of the Role of the Individual in History (1898).
— J.M.S.