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Marx’s and Engels’ views on Russia changed considerably during the decades. Initially, they both saw in Russia a reactionary threat to the West European democratic and revolutionary moment. Marx even expressed views which might be called “russophobic”. A turn came around the year 1870, when Marx’s Capital was translated into Russian and he made acquaintance with a new generation of Russian revolutionaries. Both Marx and Engels discussed the prospects of Russia’s special path to socialism. In the end, however, their views remained ambivalent.
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Oittinen, V. (2023). Marx and Russia—Yet an Open Theme. In: Marx's Russian Moment. Marx, Engels, and Marxisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29662-8_1
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