In Defence of Materialism: The Development of the Monist View of History

1st English edition.  304pp.  Beige cloth-covered boards with black lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth tired, mottled along lower, gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, a little marked and sunned over spine.  Some toning to text block edges.  Slight offset tanning on endpapers and previous owner's name inked on the front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Plekhanov (1857-1918), also known as the father of Russian Marxism, directed most of his writing again the Russian populist movement to which he had once belonged and insisted that revolution had to be two-step process if capitalism was to be done away with.  This, one of his seminar works, was published in Russia in 1896 but not available in English until this edition was published in 1947.  In it he argues that all aspects of society are ultimately derived from the economic conditions in which it exists.