Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov

Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (Russian: Георгий Валентинович Плеханов; born 29 November [O.S. 11 December] 1856 – died 30 May 1918) was a Russian revolutionary and a 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." Facing political persecution, Plekhanov emigrated to Switzerland in 1880, where he continued in his political activity attempting to overthrow the Tsarist regime in Russia.