Today, 107 years ago, on May 30, 1918 (April 21, 1918), Plekhanov, the founder of Russian Marxism, died. Plekhanov, born November 29, 1856. In his early years to join populist organizations, he resigned. He was exposed to Marxist theory during his exile. In 1883, the first Marxist revolutionary organization of Russia was founded, the Labor Liberation Society. His two works, Socialist and Political Struggle (1883) and Our Disagreement (1885) gave a heavy blow to populism and laid the ideological foundation of Russian Marxism. Later, his books, The Development of the Historical Perspective of the Element, and a series of articles, attacked the German socialist-democrat Bernstein's attempt to modify Marxist revisionist theory. He first stood on the side of Len