David Riazanov's
KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELS
An Introduction to Their Lives and Work

written 1927
first published 1937
Translated by Joshua Kunitz
Transcribed for the Internet
by director@marx.org in between January and April 1996.

When Monthly Review Press reprinted this classic work in 1973, Paul M. Sweezy wrote the reasons for doing so in a brief foreword:

 

His sentiments are shared. So here's a digital edition, permanently archived on the net, thus never off the library shelf. Download or print out your own copy.

 

TABLE OF 
CONTENTS 
CHAPTER 
1 
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND. 
THE GREAT FRENCH REVOLUTION AND ITS INFLUENCE UPON GERMANY. 
CHAPTER 
2 
THE EARLY REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN GERMANY. 
THE RHINE PROVINCE. 
THE YOUTH OF MARX AND ENGELS. 
THE EARLY WRITINGS OF ENGELS. 
MARX AS EDITOR OF THE Rheinische Zeitung
CHAPTER 
3 
THE RELATION BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM AND PHILOSOPHY. 
MATERIALISM. 
KANT. 
FICHTE. 
HEGEL. 
FEUERBACH. 
DIALECTIC MATERIALISM. 
THE HISTORIC MISSION OF THE PROLETARIAT. 
CHAPTER 
4 
THE HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE. 
MARX AS AN ORGANIZER. 
THE STRUGGLE WITH WEITLING. 
THE FORMATION OF THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE. 
THE Communist Manifesto
THE CONTROVERSY WITH PROUDHON. 
CHAPTER 
5 
THE GERMAN REVOLUTION OF 1818. 
MARX AND ENGELS IN THE RHINE PROVINCE. 
THE FOUNDING OF THE Neue Rheinische Zeitung
GOTSCHALK AND WILLICH. 
THE COLOGNE WORKINGMEN'S UNION. 
THE POLICIES AND TACTICS OF THE Neue Rheinische Zeitung
STEFAN BORN. 
MARX'S CHANGE OF TACTICS. 
THE DEFEAT OF THE REVOLUTION AND THE DIFFERENCE 
OF OPINIONS IN THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE. 
THE SPLIT. 
CHAPTER 
6 
THE REACTION OF THE FIFTIES. 
THE New York Tribune
THE CRIMEAN WAR. 
THE VIEWS OF MARX AND ENGELS. 
THE ITALIAN QUESTION. 
MARX AND ENGELS DIFFER WITH LASSALLE. 
THE CONTROVERSY WITH VOGT. 
MARX'S ATTITUDE TOWARD LASSALLE. 
CHAPTER 
7 
THE CRISIS OF 1867-8. 
THE GROWTH OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT 
IN ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY. 
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION IN 1862. 
THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. 
THE COTTON FAMINE. 
THE POLISH REVOLT. 
THE FOUNDING OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL. 
THE ROLE OF MARX. 
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 
CHAPTER 
8 
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL. 
THE LONDON CONFERENCE. 
THE GENEVA CONGRESS. 
MARX'S REPORT. 
THE LAUSANNE AND BRUSSELS CONGRESSES. 
BAKUNIN AND MARX. 
THE BASLE CONGRESS. 
THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR. 
THE PARIS COMMUNE. 
THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN MARX AND BAKUNIN. 
THE HAGUE CONGRESS. 

 

CHAPTER 
9 
ENGELS MOVES TO LONDON. 
HIS PARTICIPATION IN THE GENERAL COUNCIL. 
MARX'S ILLNESS. 
ENGELS TAKES HIS PLACE. 
Anti-Dühring
THE LAST YEARS OF MARX. 
ENGELS AS THE EDITOR OF MARX'S LITERARY HERITAGE. 
THE ROLE OF ENGELS IN THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL. 
THE DEATH OF ENGELS. 

 


 
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