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A variant of environmental determinism was popular among Marxists, employing the dialectical materialism concept of history.

To Marx's basic model of the ideological and cultural superstructure being determined by the economic base, they added the idea that the economic base is determined by environmental conditions.

For example, Russian geographer Georgi Plekhanov argued that the reason his nation was still in the feudal era, rather than having progressed to capitalism and becoming ripe for the revolution into communism, was that the wide plains of Russia allowed class conflicts to be easily diffused.

This Marxist environmental determinism was repudiated around the same time as classic environmental determinism.