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The one under the leadership of Plekhanof, and calling itself the Revolutionary Social Democrats, held to the Marx doctrines in all their extent and purity, and maintained the necessity of constant agitation in the political sense.
Reply of Plekhanof A New Departure Karl Marx's Theories Applied to Russia Beginnings of a Social Democratic Movement The Labour Troubles of 1894-96 in St.
The Plekhanof group replied in a long series of publications, partly original and partly translations from Marx and Engels, explaining the doctrines and aims of the Social Democrats. Seven years were spent in this academic literary activity a period of comparative repose for the Russian secret police and about 1890 the propagandists of the new school began to work cautiously in St. Petersburg.
Lavroff, the prophet of the old propaganda, treated the new ideas "with grandfatherly severity," and Tikhomirof, the leading representative of the moribund Narodnaya Volya, which had prepared the acts of terrorism, maintained stoutly that the West European methods recommended by Plekhanof were inapplicable to Russia.
His views were expounded in a series of interesting publications, the first of which was a brochure entitled "Socialism and the Political Struggle," published in 1883. According to M. Plekhanof and his group the revolutionary movement had been conducted up to that moment on altogether wrong lines.
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