The Development of the Monist View of History is the major work of the Russian philosopher Georgi Plekhanov, published in 1895. Plekhanov gives an account of modern social and philosophical thought as culminating in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx and seen through the materialism of Ludwig Feuerbach. Later on February 8, 1895, Engels wrote directly to Plekhanov congratulating him on the "great success" of getting the book "published inside the country". A German edition was published in Stuttgart in 1896.