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Early edition of this work about World War I by the Russian revolutionary and Marxist thinker Georgi Plekhanov (1856-1918), published as part of a series titled "The citizen's library" (Biblioteka grazhdanina). First published in 1915, Plekhanov's work is an indictment of what he saw as an Austro-German politics of aggression, supported by a hypocritical Social Democrat government, combined with an attempt to present a positive view of the Entente Powers. Plekhanov was convinced that Russia's military defeat would, in fact, only strengthen the Tsarist regime -- a strange assertion which led to severe criticism by Lenin, and later accusations that he had, in fact, defended the Tsar during World War I. Early edition of this work about World War I by the Russian revolutionary and Marxist thinker Georgi Plekhanov (1856-1918), published as part of a series titled "The citizen's library" (Biblioteka grazhdanina). First published in 1915, Plekhanov's work is an indictment of what he saw as an Austro-German… Read More