The Civil War in France is an analysis by Karl Marx of the rise and fall of the Paris Commune during the Franco-Prussian war of the early 1870s.
Bibliographic notesThe first version of The Civil War in France was prepared by Marx for the International Workingmen's Association (also known as the First International) and published in English in London in 1871. It was then translated into German as Der Bürgerkrieg in Frankreich. In 1891, Friedrich Engels created an expanded edition (with the German title) that included a new introduction and additional material written previously by Marx for the First International. Many more recent editions are based on Engels's 1891 expanded edition.
See alsoThis edition includes the material in the 1891 edition, with additional context.
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The Civil War in France, by Karl Marx (HTML at marxists.org)
These are English or German editions based on the original 1871 printing, and pre-date the 1891 expanded edition.
- The Civil War in France: Address of the General Council of the International Workingmen's Association (third edition, revised; London: Pub. for the Council by E. Truelove, 1871), by Karl Marx, contrib. by International Workingmen's Association (page images at HathiTrust)
- Der Bürgerkrieg in Frankreich: Adresse des Generalraths der Internationalen Arbeiter-Assoziation an alle Mitglieder in Europa und den Vereinigten Staaten (Leipzig: Verlag der Expedition des Volksstaat, 1871), by Karl Marx (page images at HathiTrust)
These include Engels's 1891 edition, as well as later editions, which are usually based on Engels's.
- Der Bürgerkrieg in Frankreich: Adresse des Generalraths der Internationalen Arbeiter-Association. (second German edition; Berlin: Verlag der Expedition des "Vorwärts", Berliner Volksblatt, 1891), by Karl Marx, ed. by Friedrich EngelsThe original expanded edition, in German.
- Der Bürgerkrieg in Frankreich (in German; Berlin: Borwärts, 1920), by Karl Marx, ed. by A. Conradh, contrib. by Friedrich Engels (page images at HathiTrust; US access only). Includes additional contextual material by Conradh.
- The Civil War in France, Preceded by the Two Manifestoes of the General Council of the International on the Franco-Prussian War (London: The Labour Pub. Co., 1921), by Karl Marx, contrib. by International Workingmen's Association and Raymond Postgate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only). Includes Marx's earlier writings for the First International that Engels included in his expanded edition, but does not include Engels's own additions.
These editions are in languages other than English or German.
- Kansalaissota Ranskassa (The Civil War in France, in Finnish; Helsinki: Työväen Sanomalehti O.-Y., 1918), by Karl Marx, contrib. by Friedrich Engels (Gutenberg text)
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