1st Edition

Friedrich Engels

By W.O. Henderson Copyright 1976
    484 Pages
    by Routledge

    476 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1976. The first volume on this two-part biography traces Engels' carer from his youth in the Wupper valley, through his periods in Bremen and Berlin to the Manchester years and the beginning of his long collaboration with Marx. These early years are described against the background of the prevailing social unrest in Europe, culminating in the 1848 revolutions and portraits are included of many Marx's and Engels' friends and fellow communists.

    Engels and Das Kapital; the general; Engels and the working classes 1850-1870 - the workers in Britain, the workers in France, the workers in Germany; the first international 1864-1872 - the founding of the first international, Marx and the first international, 1864-70, the international in England, the international in France, the international in Germany, the international and the labour movement, the international and the Irish question, Engels and the general council, 1870-2, the international and the Paris Commune, 1871, Bakunin and the international, the international in Spain, the international in Italy, the Hague Congress, 1872; Marx and Engels - the last phase 1870-1883; the champion of Marxism 1872-1879 - anti-Bakunin, 1872-3, anti-Proudhon, 1872, anti-Blanqui, 1874, anti-Lassalle, 1875, anti-Duhring, 1878, anti-Hochberg, 1879; Engels as historian; Engels and the German social democrat party 1878-1890; the leader of the orchestra 1883-1895 - the legacy of Marx, the father of international socialism, the second international, conclusion.

    Biography

    W.O. Henderson