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Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (''Георгий Валентинович Плеханов'') ( 1856 – May 17 1918 ) was a Russia n revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the Social-Democratic movement in Russia . Plekhanov contributed many ideas to Marxism in the area of Philosophy and the roles of art and religion in society. In his political activities he adopted the Nom De Guerre of Volgin, after the Volga River . Some have commented that this name influenced the famous revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov adopting the name Lenin to highlight his opposition to Plekhanovs' politics. Plekhanov was originally a Narodnik , a leader of the organization " Land And Liberty ". After emigrating from Russia in 1880 , he established connections with the Social-Democratic movement of western Europe and began to study the works of Marx and Engels . This led him to renounce Narodism and become a Marxist. In 1883 in Switzerland , he co-founded with Lev Deutsch and Vera Zasulich, the " Emancipation Of Labor " group, which popularized Marxism among Russian revolutionaries. At its dissolution, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) and worked with Lenin . In 1903 , at the second congress of the RSDLP, Plekhanov broke with Lenin and sided with the Menshevik s. During World War I , he took a "nationalist" position (as opposed to Bolshevik's " Proletarian Internationalism "), calling for the defeat of Germany . He returned to Russia just before October Revolution and formed Yedinstvo . However, he left Russia again because he was hostile toward the Bolsheviks . He died of Tuberculosis in Terijok i, Finland (now Zelenogorsk , Saint Petersburg , Russia). WORKS
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