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Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov, 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. Plekhanov was born into a family of the minor gentry.

Georgy Plekhanov, (born Dec. 11, 1856, Gudalovka, Russia—died May 30, 1918, Terioki, Fin.), Russian Marxist theorist. From 1874 he was active in the Populist movement and became a leader of the Land and Freedom group (1877–80).

Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov was born in 1857 in the village of Gudalovka in the Tambov province of central Russia. His family belonged to the minor landowning nobility, his father being a retired army officer.

(1856–1918) Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov, the Russian Marxist, revolutionary, philosopher, sociologist, and historian of social thought, was the son of a poor nobleman. After graduating from a military academy in Voronezh, he studied at the Mining Institute in St. Petersburg.

Plekhanov is known as the "father of Russian Marxism". Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov was a Russian revolutionary, philosopher and 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".