Works of Frederick Engels
Written: 1851-1852;
First Published: 1896;
Edited: Eleanor Marx Aveling;
Transcribed: Sally Ryan 1999;
HTML Markup: Sally Ryan 1999.
Marx was asked in the summer of 1851 by Charles Anderson Dana, managing
editor of the New York Tribune, to write a series of articles on the
German Revolution. Founded in 1842 by Horace Greeley, the Tribune was
the most influential paper in the United States at the time. These
articles were written by Engels at the request of Marx, who was then
busy with his economic studies and felt, besides, that he had not yet
attained fluency in English. Engels wrote the articles in Manchester,
where he was employed, and sent them on to Marx in London to be edited
and dispatched to New York. Thus, although Engels must be rightly
considered their author, Marx took a big part in the preparation, for in
their almost daily correspondence the chief points were discussed
thoroughly between them. The articles appeared under Marx's name, and it
was not until much later, when the correspondence between the two
life-long collaborators became available, that the true circumstances
were revealed. The contributions to the Tribune thus begun continued
until 1862, and though Marx himself wrote most of the articles after
1852, Engels continued to help his friend by writing for him important
articles on political and military affairs. When Marx's daughter,
Eleanor, wrote the preface to the 1896 edition she was still under the
impression that Marx had written the series.
[Publisher's Note to the 1969 edition published in London by Lawrence & Wishart]
I. Germany at the Outbreak of the Revolution
VII. The Frankfort National Assembly
VIII. Poles, Tschechs, and Germans
IX. Panslavism; The Schleswig War
X. The Paris Rising; The Frankfort Assembly
XII. The Storming of Vienna: The Betrayal of Vienna
XIII. The Prussian Assembly: The National Assembly
XIV. The Restoration of Order: Diet and Chamber
XVI. The Assembly and the Governments
XIX. The Close of the Insurrection