Plekhanov in Russian History and Soviet Historiography

Download or read book Plekhanov in Russian History and Soviet Historiography written by Samuel H. Baron and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baron brings together eleven articles published between 1958 and 1986 with a new introduction and an autobiographical essay that serves as a coda to the collection. The essays examine Georgi V. Plekhanov's ideas about history and their relationship to Soviet historiography, most especially his concept of poet-primitive Russia not as a Western feudal society but rather an Oriental despotism, and his views on the prospect for socialism in the United States. Baron also includes two pieces that revise his earlier thinking about Plekhanov, retracing his steps and exploring paths he neglected in his earlier research for his major biography, Plekhanov: The Father of Russian Marxism (1963).