num_pages: 391
description: According to Nimtz, no two people contributed more to the struggle for democracy in the 19th century than Karl Marx &amp; Frederick Engels. Presenting the 1st major study of the two thinkers in the past 20 years &amp; the 1st since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book challenges many widely held views about their democratic credentials &amp; their attitudes &amp; policies on the peasantry, the importance of national self-determination, the struggle for women's equality, their so-called Eurocentric bias, political &amp; party organizing, &amp; the possibility for socialist revolution in an overwhelmingly peasant &amp; underdeveloped country like late-19th-century Russia.
language: English
title: Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough
titlecomplete: Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough (Suny Series in Political Theory. Contemporary Issues)
genres: History
ratings_count: 15
publisher: State University of New York Press