Alexander Martinov
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Alexander Martinov (1865 – 1935) was a Menshevik before the Russian revolutions of 1917, and for a few years after the revolution an opponent of the Soviet government.
He joined the Communist Party in 1923 as an opponent of the "Left Opposition." He was a chief architect of the "bloc of four classes."
Martinov was an advocate of the two stage theory, that a fully capitalist government was needed to run well into its course before Socialism and thereafter Communism could be possible.
