 
David Riazanov's |
David Riazanov's |
When Monthly Review Press reprinted this classic work in 1973, Paul M. Sweezy wrote the reasons for doing so in a brief foreword:
"I assigned the book in its entirety as an introduction to Marxism as long as I gave the course. The results were good: the students liked it and learned from it not only the main facts about the lives and works of the founders of Marxism, but also, by way of example, something of the Marxist approach to the study and writing of history.
"Later on during the 1960s when there was a revival of interest in Marxism among students and others, a growing need was felt for reliable works of introduction and explanation. Given my own past experience, I naturally responded to requests for assistance from students and teachers by recommending, among other works, Riazanov's Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. But by that time the book had long been out of print and could usually be found only in the larger libraries (some of which, as has a way of happening with useful books, had lost their copies in the intervening years). We at Monthly Review Press therefore decided to request permission to reprint the book, and this has now been granted. I hope that students and teachers in the 1970s will share my enthusiasm for a work which exemplifies in an outstanding way the art of popularizing without falsifying or vulgarizing."
| TABLE OF
CONTENTS |
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| 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.
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| 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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