The Marxist Ideology of G.V. Plekhanov

The Marxist Ideology of G.V. Plekhanov,
Ella Feldman Belfer, Doctoral Dissertation:
Supervised by Michael Confino, Tel Aviv University, 1972

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: The Paradox.vii

Part I: 
Plekhanov the Father of Russian Marxism.1

1.From Narodnichestvo to Marxism- From Zemlia i Voliato Gruppa Osvobozhdenie Truda. 

2.Gruppa Osvobozhdenie Truda - Its First Decade.24

A. The Ideological Battles and the Crystallization(towards Maximalism)

3.Gruppa Osvobozhdenie Truda - Its First Decade.56

B.The Growth - from Gruppa to Union.

Part II:
The Gruppa’s Second Decade - Against the "Right".  64

In Defense - Against Revisionism, Economism and the Union. 85

Iskra Zaria - The Collaboration with Lenin.   196 

The Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.  168

Part Ill: 
The Third Decade - Between Bolshevism and Menshevism. 187

FromIskra to the Diary of a Social Democrat.192

 The 1905 Revolution. 209

Plekhanov - A Menshevik. In the Avant-guard Against Lenin. 232

From Golos Sotsial-Demokrata to Edinstvo.  269

PartIV:
From Dogmatism to Pragmatism.309

The War.310

Plekhanov and the February and October Revolutions. 

The Shepherd without a Flock.347

Conclusion: The Circle Completed 388

Notes

Bibliography

In the first section of my work, I shall discuss Plekhanov's transition to Marxism as a background*to the formulation of his ideology in the years 1800-82; the formation of the Gruppa Osvovozhdenie Truda and a survey of its development; the development of Plekhanov’s ideology in these years; the attempts to disseminate Marxist teachings among the Russian revolutionaries, and the success of the Gruppa in this direction;the broadening of the Gruppa into the Union (1883-94). 

The second section covers the ideological struggle against Revisionism(1898) and against Economism, his personal struggle against the Union that ended with the creation of Iskra-Zaria in December 1900, and culminated in the preparations for the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P.(1893-1903). 

The third section will discuss Plekhanov’s transition from collaboration with Lenin against Economism, to their parting immediately after the Congress of July 1903; from then Plekhanov began his struggle against Lenin’s "left"; his "bourgeois" attitude to the 1905 Revolution as part of his struggle against the left; his role and anti-Bolshevik attitude in the Fourth Congress (the United, April 1906) , and the Fifth,(London, April 1907); from this to a new struggle against the "right"(liquidationism, 1909-12), and during all these years increasing efforts at re-unification of the party (1903-14)


In the fourth section I shall survey Plekhanov's attitude to the First World War, and the revolution of February 1917, prior to the Bolshevik Revolution, and afterwards (1914-17).

All dates are given as recorded in the references — Gregorian in the Russian references, Julian in the Western.