The Communist ManifestoThe complete text of the political tract which has exercised so great an influence on the world in the last century. In a special introduction to this edition A.J.P. Taylor charts the progress of the manifesto from persecuted obscurity to global reverence and examines the relevance of Marx's nineteenth-century ideas to the realities of modern politics. |
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Introduction by A J P Taylor | 7 |
Bibliography | 48 |
Preface to the Russian Edition of 1882 | 55 |
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