Georgij Valentinovič Plechanov Papers

Period 1890-1919 (-1956)
Total size   1 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Full name: Georgij Valentinovič Plechanov; born in Gudalovka, Tambov province, Russia 1856, died in Terioki, Finland 1918; politician, sociologist, acknowledged `father of Russian Marxism'; leading activist of Zemlja i Volja in 1877; went to Western Europe in 1880 to escape arrest and only returned to Russia in 1917; became a Marxist in the early 1880s; founded together with Pavel Aksel'rod, Vera Zasulic and Lev G. Dejc the Gruppa Osvobozdenie Truda, the first Russian Marxist organization, in 1883; was the main theoretician of the Russian social democracy until 1903; turned against the Bolsheviks after the split in 1903; immersed himself in studies of art, literature and history after the revolution of 1905, employing Marxian concepts and methods; returned to Russia in April 1917; supported the Provisional Government and criticised the October Revolution.

Content

Part of his papers, containing some 150 letters from Plechanov to his wife 1890-1916; some 150 letters from Rozalija M. Plechanova to her husband 1893-1916; letters from Rozalija and Georgij Plechanov to their daughters; photocopies of letters from Plechanov to his wife; typescript of vol. VIII, second part, of `Literaturnoe Nasledie G.V. Plechanova'; translations of articles written by Plechanov; articles on Plechanov; documents relating to Rozalija Plechanova 1919; press clippings on the death of both; press clippings, etc., on the 100th birthday of Plechanov; some other printed material.

Alternate Form of Material

5 security microfilms.

Location of originals

Dom Plechanova, St.Petersburg