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What-if seed: "In the late 1880s there was [besides Populism--DT] no other radical movement of any size in Russia. Although Marxism, under the influence of George Plekhanov (1856–1918), was separating itself out from populism, its influence was still very small and largely confined to Russians living abroad. After all, *it was Plekhanov himself who joked, when he and Pavel Axel’rod and other founders of Russian Marxism went for a boat trip on Lake Geneva, that if they were to drown it would be the end of Russian Marxism* [emphasis added--DT]...." https://books.google.com/books?id=UNkev4PJX5AC&pg=PA11

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