MARX AND ENGELS ON FEUERBACHTRANSLATED INTO RUSSIAN BY PLEKHANOV
ENGELS, Frederich, and Georgi Plekhanov, translator.
Людвигъ Фейербахъ. Сочиненiе Фр. Энгельса. Переводъ съ нѣмецкаго Г. Плеханова. Съ двумя прiложенями и съ объяснительными примѣчанями переводчика (Библiотека Современнаго Соцiализма, Серiя II. – Выпускъ I. [Ludwig Feuerbach. Essays by Fr. Engels. With two supplements and with the translator’s explanatory notes (Library of Modern Socialism, Series II. – Issue I.)].
Geneva, “Sotsial’-demokrata”, 1892.
8vo, pp. [iv], iv, 105, [3]; a few stamps from The Russian Free Press 3 Iffley Road, London, W., including to half-title, browned; in the original printed wrappers; some chips to wrappers and spine.
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Людвигъ Фейербахъ. Сочиненiе Фр. Энгельса. Переводъ съ нѣмецкаго Г. Плеханова. Съ двумя прiложенями и съ объяснительными примѣчанями переводчика (Библiотека Современнаго Соцiализма, Серiя II. – Выпускъ I. [Ludwig Feuerbach. Essays by Fr. Engels. With two supplements and with the translator’s explanatory notes (Library of Modern Socialism, Series II. – Issue I.)].
First Russian edition, rare. Engels and Marx’s analysis of Feuerbach’s philosophy, which played such a vital role in the development of the Marxist legacy, translated by Georgi Plekhanov in the years leading up to the first Russian revolution.
The original, Ludwig Feuerbach und der ausgang der Klassischen deutschen philosophie, was first published in Nos. 4 and 5 of Die Neue Zeit in 1886. Engels published it in book form in 1888, having added his foreword and Marx’s Thesen über Feuerbach. This Russian edition is taken from the 1888 edition; a second Russian edition was published in 1905 with more changes by Plekhanov.
Earlier in the century Feuerbach’s philosophy had taken root in Russia among Herzen and Bakunin, and in his biography of Marx Lenin discusses Feuerbach’s philosophy as ones of the cores of the Marxist doctrine. Plekhanov, a figurehead of Russian Marxism and of the Revolution, was committed to transmitting the Marxist ideas of political economy and a new economic system to the Russian audience through writing and translating. Having emigrated to Switzerland in 1880 to avoid political persecution at home, he co-founded the ‘Emancipation of Labor Group’ (Gruppa osvobozhdenie truda) in Geneva in 1883. Their work translating and distributing Marxist works attracted Lenin to join during this period, who went on to praise Plekhanov’s literary contribution to the Communist cause.
Plekhanov has kept the Theses included here, as well as adding a translation of Der französische Materialismus des XVIII Jahrhunderts. The translation is from the text in Die Neue Zeit No. 9, 1885, pp. 385-95, not from the original Die heilige Familie oder Kritik der kritischen Kritik, gegen Bruno Bauer und Comp. (1845), which Plekhanov states was too rare.
WorldCat and COPAC list 5 institutional copies in the US, and 2 in the UK.
