Marx and Engels - Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakhrough

According to Nimtz, no two people contributed more to the struggle for democracy in the nineteenth century than Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Presenting the first major study of the two thinkers in the past twenty years and the first since the collapse of the Soviet Union, this book challenges many widely held views about their democratic credentials and their attitudes and policies on the peasantry, the importance of national self-determination, the struggle for women's equality, their so-called Eurocentric bias, political and party organizing, and the possibility for socialist revolution in an overwhelmingly peasant and underdeveloped country like late-nineteenth-century Russia.

About the author

August H. Nimtz, Jr. is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Islam and Politics in East Africa: The Sufi Order in Tanzania.

Product details

• Authors: August H. Nimtz, August H. Jr. Nimtz, August H Nimtz Jr, August H. Nimtz Jr
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2000
• EAN: 9780791444900
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4490-0
• No. of pages: 377
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Suny Series in Political Theor; Suny Political Theory: Contemp
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education