PLEKHANOV, GEORGY VALENTINOVICH

born Nov. 29 [Dec. 11, New Style], 1856, Gudalovka, Russia died May 17 , 1918, Terioki, Fin. [now Zelenogorsk, Russia] Marxist theorist, the founder and for many years the leading exponent of the Marxist movement in Russia. A Menshevik, he opposed the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia in 1917 and died in exile. Additional reading Samuel H. Baron, Plekhanov: The Father of Russian Marxism (1963).