Study On Plekhanov's Geographical Theory And Its Contemporary Value

Plekhanov's geographical environment theory produced on the basis of the early geographical environment theory,the bourgeois' geographical environment theory,Marx and Engels' s geographical environment theory and the Russia's marxist theorist of geographical environment.Based on the clue of the historical materialism and combining with the international and domestic situation,Plekhanov explored the specific content of the geographical environment theory.Plekhanov's geographical environment theory inherit and develop Marx and Engels' s geographical environment theory,enrich the ecological thoughts of Soviet Russia,cause the importance of the geographical and ecological environment problems in China.In the process of the social history development,the geographical environment theory experienced a process of constant evolution.The Plekhanov's geographical environment theory absorbed the predecessors ' theoretical research about the geographical environment,combined with the social and historical conditions and his own knowledge structure.Plekhanov study the geographical environment theory from five aspects.Plekhanov on geographic environmental determinism and indeterminism criticism and transcendence.The function of the geographical environment in the role of social development.The "intermediary" function of the productivity on the geographical environment and the development of society.The influence is a "variable quantity" about the geographical environment and the human society.The social movement has its own internal logic and regularity which independent of the geographical environment.Plekhanov's geography theory is the unity of critical and inheritance,theory and reality,materialism and dialectics.It has an important historical position.Plekhanov's geography theory has great theoretical significance in the aspects of inheriting and developing Marx and Engels' ecological thoughts,enriching the Russia's ecological thought and causing the importance of the geographical and ecological environment problems in China.In the meantime,there are some problems.Such as the restraint which Plekhanov political stance for its geographical environment theory.It contains some tendency which exaggerating the effect of the geography in the historical development and there are some expression problems.Aiming at these problems,we must look at it objectively.Plekhanov's geography theory highlighted the human and the nature,thegeographical environment and the relationship between the social development,laid the groundwork for the development of China's ecological thoughts,deepen the productivity and production relations contradiction movement and its role in social development,promoted the theory and practice exploration of the ecological civilization construction in our country.