‎Histoire des Doctrines économiques, publiée par Karl Kautsky.‎

‎ P., Alfred Costes, 1924-1925, 8 vol. in-12, traduit par J. Molitor, reliures demi-chagrin maroquiné brun, dos à 5 nerfs soulignés à froid, titres et tomaisons dorés, les 2 premiers volumes d'un brun un peu plus clair que les 6 suivants (rel. de l'époque), bon état. Édition originale en français, bien reliée‎

‎Complet. — "Marx s'est intéressé très tôt à l'économie politique : les “Théories sur la plus-value” composent la majeure partie d'un manuscrit économique rédigé en 1861-1863. L'élaboration du “Capital” a connu plusieurs phases. Au cours du travail, l'analyse du capital ne cessa de s'enfler et Marx fut amené à y incorporer des questions qu'il voulait d'abord envisager séparément (la concurrence, le crédit, la propriété foncière). Lorsqu'il s'attaqua à l'élaboration définitive de sa propre théorie, Marx se trouva devant la nécessité de réétudier l'économie classique et il interrompit la rédaction du Capital proprement dit pour entreprendre une digression historico-critique dont l'importance ne cessera de croître. Constatant que les économistes antérieurs n'avaient jamais étudié la plus-value en soi, mais seulement dans ses formes dérivées – la rente et le profit – , il fut amené à étudier la théorie de la rente, du profit, de l'intérêt. Il ne se contenta pas d'exposer et de critiquer les points de vue des économistes bourgeois ; il leur opposa ses propres conceptions. Telle est l'origine des “Théories sur la plus-value”. En 1883, à la mort de Marx, le manuscrit se trouvait dans le même état qu'en 1863, Marx n'ayant pas eu le temps de le reprendre. On sait qu'Engels consacra une grande partie des douze dernières années de sa vie à mettre à la disposition du public les œuvres que Marx avait laissées inachevées. Dès 1883, il fait mention des Théories dans sa correspondance et dit qu'il espère les publier avec le livre III du Capital. En 1885, il en publie le livre II ; dans la préface, il écrit qu'il compte publier les Théories séparément, après le livre III, « comme livre IV du Capital », projet qu'il n'a jamais désespéré de mener à bout lui-même. Mais, Engels disparu, c'est Karl Kautsky, qui lui s'était refusé à considérer les Théories comme le livre IV du Capital, qui se chargea de l'édition et les Théories furent publiées entre 1905 et 1910..." (Josette Liégeois, Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 1976) — Alfred Costes correspondit avec Karl et Luise Kautsky au début des années 1920, notamment à propos de cette première traduction française des “Théories sur la plus-value” de Marx (“Theorien über den Mehrwert”), parue en 1924-25 en 8 tomes sous le titre “Histoire des Doctrines économiques”. (Maitron) Désormais les frais d'envoi sont de 6 € seulement pour les livres jusqu'à 1 kg (colissimo suivi), pour la France métropolitaine.‎

‎Histoire des doctrines économiques. Ricardo [3 volumes]‎

‎Paris, Alfred Costes, coll. « Oeuvres complètes de Karl Marx » 1947 3 volumes. In-12 19 x 12 cm. Brochés, couvertures beiges, titre en noir sur les dos et les premier plats, 361-320-178 pp., table des matières. Exemplaires en bon état.‎

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‎Historical Materialism. Excerpts from the works of K. Marx and F. Engels. In Ru‎

‎Historical Materialism. Excerpts from the works of K. Marx and F. Engels. In Russian /Istoricheskiy materializm. Otryvki iz rabot K. Marksa i F. Engelsa. Sost. V. Adoratsky and A. Udaltsov. Social Gez 1931. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. The delivery of this book might be delayed beyond the usual timeframe due to extended processing and preparation before shipment, and faster shipping options are not offered. Please inform us if you need the order by a certain date or have a deadline.SKUalbb8e2a45ada95cccc‎

‎Indexes to the Second Edition of the Works of K. Marx and F. Engels. In Russian‎

‎Indexes to the Second Edition of the Works of K. Marx and F. Engels. In Russian /Ukazateli ko vtoromu izdaniyu Sochineniy K.Marksa i F.Engelsa. Moscow Political Literature. 1974. 332 You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKUalb341824a339573654‎

‎Index to the Second Edition of the Works of K. Marx and F. Engels (Volume 40-50‎

‎Index to the Second Edition of the Works of K. Marx and F. Engels (Volume 40-50). In Russian /Predmetnyy ukazatel ko vtoromu izdaniyu Sochineniy K. Marksa i F. Engelsa (40-50 toma). Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU. M. Politizdat, 1986, 458s. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKUalb4311ae50a6adc061‎

‎Istoricheskiy materializm. In Russian /Historical Materialism ‎

‎"Short description: In Russian. Marx, Karl. Historical Materialism. Moscow; Leningrad: State Publishing House, 1929. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9215642"‎

‎Istoricheskiy materializm. In Russian /Historical Materialism ‎

‎"Short description: In Russian. Marx, Karl. Historical materialism. Moscow; Leningrad: State Publishing House, 1931. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9306733"‎

‎Istoriya Sovetskoy Konstitutsii. In Russian /History of the Soviet Constitution‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Gurvich, Georgy Semenovich. History of the Soviet Constitution. Moscow: Edition of the Socialist Acad., 1923. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU8564600‎

‎Izbrannye proizvedeniya. In Russian /Selected Works ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Marx, Karl. Selected Works. Moscow: Politizdat, 1970. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU6796736‎

‎Izbrannye proizvedeniya. In Russian /Selected Works ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Marx, Karl. Selected Works. Moscow: Part Publishing House, 1933. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU8986847‎

‎Kapitaal en Arbeid. Bewerkt door F. Domela Nieuwenhuis. - [THE RARE FIRST DUTCH TRANSLATION]‎

‎The Hague, Liebers & Co, (1881). 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Spine missing some of the paper and upper part of front wrapper and lower part of back wrappers detached. Wrappers brownspotted and previous owner's name in pencil to upper margin of front wrapper. Pp. 37-40 missing some of the paper in upper margin - far from affecting text, otherwise internally fine and clean. VII, 82 pp.‎

‎The rare first Dutch translation of Marx’s “Lohnarbeit und Kapital” (i.e. ""Wage Labour and Capital"") here in the exceedingly rare printed wrappers, presumably being the only known copy in wrappers. This seminal work by Karl Marx, which, due to its aim to be a popular exposition of his central theories of capitalism and the economic relationships between workers and capitalists, became one of the most generally influential and widely read of Marx' works. It is widely considered the precursor to Das Kapital. ""Wage Labour and Capital"" was originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847 and was first published, however only fragmentarily, in the form of five articles in April 1849 in the ""Neue Rheinische Zeitung"". Because of the political conditions, the printing of the series had to be ended, and thus only these five articles appeared, as there was no sign of the rest of it between the papers of Marx that were found after his death. The work did not appear again until 1881. In 1891, Engels published a re-worked version of the article, which took into account Marx' later developments in his economic theory (for instance Engels inserted the distinction between ""labour"" and ""labour-power"", which Marx did not make in the original version), and during the 1890'ies the work appeared in numerous languages and in an enormous amount of editions. Marx' seminal theories that are made easily accessible in this important publication include his Labour Theory of Value, his Theory of Concentration of Capital, his Theory of Alienation etc., which were all later developed in the ""Capital"", three fundamental theories that have influenced all later economical-political thought. Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (1846-1919), a Dutch socialist. ""Originally a Lutheran pastor (1870-1879), he left the church, founded the socialist weekly Recht voor Allen (1879). He played a leading part in developing the Social-Democratic movement in the Netherlands" was elected to parliament for a term (1881-1891)" disappointed in legislating social reform, he turned to anarchism (1890s). He authored a number of propaganda brochures."" (Draper: The Marx-Engels Glossary, p. 154.)‎

‎Kapitalen. 2 Dele. Første Bind. Kapitalens Produktionsproces. Oversat efter Originalens tredje Oplag. 2. Kapitalens Cirkulationsproces.Udgivet efter Forfatterens Død af Friedrich Engels. [i.e. Danish ""Das Kapital""]. - [FIRST DANISH TRANSLATION OF ""THE CAPITAL""]‎

‎København, (Copenhagen), 1885-87. 4to. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Even browning as usual, due to the paper quality. An envelope pasted on to front free end-paper containing Danish articles on Marx. Previous owner's name to title-pages. A fine and clean copy with both half-titles present (""Socialistisk Bibliotek"" Vol. IV-V). Vol 1: (2), 473, (1)" Vol 2: VII-1" (4), 363, (1) pp.‎

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‎First edition of the first Danish translation of ""Das Kapital"". The translation is remarkable in several respects - the Danish Social-democratic party was one of the first labour organizations in the world to publish the two volumes of ""The Capital"", the translation of the first volume preceded both the English and the Italian, and the translation of the second volume is the second in the world to appear, only preceded by the Russian from 1885 - furthermore, these two translations were the only two to appear of volume two until after Engels' death in 1895. After having been in a serious crisis at the end of the 1870'ies, the labour movement in Denmark turned things around in the 1880'ies, primarily with the aid of Marx. Marx' theories and his connection between theoretical and practical politics became the foundation for the Social Democrats. In 1884, the Danish Social Democratic Party got its two first members of parliament elected, and many workers wished to become politically active. Also in Denmark, the class struggle had properly begun.As Marx was the foundation for the beginning success of the Social Democrats, the Party decided that it would translate and publish all the most important works by Marx - of course most importantly ""The Capital"". This translation was to become ""a new and powerful weapon for the Danish Labour Party in the agitation for the socialist principles"". The translation of ""The Capital"" was made by the linguist and journalist Hans Vilhelm Lund (1840-1893), who worked at the paper Social-Demokraten in the 1880'ies and 90'ies. The translation is famed for being extremely true to the original and virtually flawless. In order to reach as wide a relevant audience as possible, the price was kept as low as it could be. It still constituted a full day's wages for a skilled worker, namely 2 kroner - still about 1/7 of the German edition. In spite of all the efforts to distribute the translation, it did not become a bestseller, and in 1911, the remainders were issued with a new title-page in 1911. (PMM 359 - first edition).‎

‎Kapitalen (i.e. Norwegian: ""Das Kapital""). - [FIRST NORWEGIAN TRANSLATION OF MARX'S 'DAS KAPITAL']‎

‎Oslo, Fram Forlag, 1930 - 1931. 5 parts (all). 8vo. 5 part in publisher's original 3 full cloth bindings with title and author in black lettering to front boards and spines. Spines lightly miscoloured, otherwise fine and clean. 166 pp."144 pp. 237 pp.‎

‎The uncommon first Norwegian translation of Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’ – only volume 1 was ever translated. The translation was commissioned by ‘Mot Dag’, a Norwegian political group active from the 1920s to the early 1930s and was first affiliated with the Labour Party. After World War II, many of its former members were leaders in Norwegian politics and cultural activities. “Although always small in numbers and often regarded with suspicion by Labour and trade union leaders, the Mot Dag organization was nevertheless an important factor in providing the Norwegian workers’ movement with a cultural policy and attracting artists, writers and intellectuals to the socialist cause. Well-known and respected authors and artists figured prominently in the organisation’s ranks as members and as contributors to the journal of the same name. Mot Dag was also instrumental in establishing cultural and educational enterprises for Norwegian workers within the workers’ movement, most famously the Arbeidernes leksikon (The Workers’ Encyclopaedia), a gigantic and unique collective effort by specialists and writers who worked without remuneration. It set up a successful publishing house where Falk published his Norwegian translation of the first volume of Marx’s Das Kapital (Capital), an undertaking that actually turned out to be profitable. In many ways Mot Dag had a position in Norway comparable to that of The Partisan Review in the United States, as an organisation that, as Hugh Wilford puts it, had a “dual commitment to anti-Stalinist Marxism and cultural Modernism”” (Sørenssen, Olav Dalgard – Politics, Film, Theatre and the Avant-Garde in Norway in the Interwar Years)‎

‎Kapitalet. Kritik av den politiska ekonomin. I svensk oversättning av Rickard Sandler. 3 vols. - [FIRST SWEDISH EDITION OF MARX' ""CAPITAL""]‎

‎Stockholm, Tidens Förlag, 1930-31. 8vo. Three volumes, all in the original publisher's uniform half calf bindings with gilt lettering to spines. Extremities, especially capitals, with a bit of wear. Internally very fine and clean. XXII, (2), 740" XXIII, (1), 479, (1)" XXV,(1), 836, (2) pp.‎

‎Scarce first edition of the first Swedish translation of ""Das Kapital"", which had an immense impact upon Swedish thought and politics. The translation is made by the Swedish politician and previous social democratic prime minister and later foreign minister Rickard Johannes Sandler (1884 - 1964). He was a leading intellectual of the contemporary social democracy.A second, severely criticized translation of the work into Swedish appeared 1969-73.‎

‎Kapital. In Russian /Capital ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Marx, Karl. Capital. Moscow: Publishing House of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (b), 1934. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU8986851‎

‎Kapital. In Russian /Capital ‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Marx, Karl. Capital. Moscow: State Publishing House of Political Litas, 1952. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU5836321‎

‎Kapital. In Russian /Capital ‎

‎"Short description: In Russian. Marx, Karl. Capital. Moscow; Leningrad: Ogiz - State Economic and Social Publishing House, 1931. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9306739"‎

‎Kapital: k'aghak'atntesut'yan k'nnadatut'yun [Armenian i.e. ""Das Kapital""]. 4. vols. - [FIRST ARMENIAN TRANSLATION OF 'DAS KAPITAL']‎

‎Erevan, Kusakts'akan Hratarakch'ut'yun, 1933 - 1949. Royal8vo. 4 volumes, all in the original red (in four different nuances) full cloth with embossed title to front boards and spine. Light soiling to extremities on all four volumes expecially volume 1 with heavy soiling. Hindges a bit weak. All volumes internally fine and clean. XL,745, (3) pp." XXVII, 492, (4) pp. XXVI, 452 pp." (4), 452 pp.‎

‎The rare first Armenian translation of Karl Marx's Das Kapital. ""Fifty years after the death of Karl Marx, the Communist Party of Armenia published in 1933 the first Armenian translation of book one of 'Das Kapital'. After a long fight against the Ottoman Empire, Armenia had become part of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in 1922. The famous Armenian historian and linguist Tadeos Ayrapetovich Avdalbegyan (1885-1937) made the translation according to the tenth and last German edition (1922) by the Meissner publishing house. Book two followed in 1936, but book three was only published after World War II, in 1947 and 1949. The changing name of the editor reflects the history of soviet Armenia over the years."" (Karl Marx Memorial Library Luxembourg - http://karlmarx.lu)‎

‎Kapital Karla Marksa. In Russian /Karl Marx's Capital ‎

‎"Short description: In Russian. Marx, Karl. Karl Marx's Capital. Rostov; Krasnodar: Burevestnik, 1924. You are welcome to reach out to us for a detailed description of the copies currently available. Delivery of this book may take longer than usual including extended processing and pre-shipping time, no expedited shipping is available. Please advise us if you have a set date or a deadline to receive your order.SKU9116810"‎

‎Kapital. Kritika politicheskoj ekonomii. Perevod c nmetskago. Tom pervoej. Kniga I. Protschess proizvodstva Kapitala. (Russian, = The Capital. Critique of the Political Economy. Translated from German. Volume One. Book I [all].). - [FIRST TRANSLATION INTO ANY LANGUAGE OF ""THE BIBLE OF MARXISM""]‎

‎S.-Peterburg, N.I. Poliakov, 1872. Large 8vo. In a nice recent half calf binding with gilt lettering to spine and five raised bands. First few leaves with light soling and a closed tear and a few marginal repairs to title-page. pp. 11-18 with repairs to upper outer corner. Closed tears to last leaf, otherwise a fine copy. XIII, (3), 678 pp. (wanting the half-title).‎

‎First Russian edition (first issue, with the issue-pointers), being the first translation into any language, of Marx' immensely influential main work, probably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century.Marx' groundbreaking ""Das Kapital"" originally appeared in German in 1867, and only the first part of the work appeared in Marx' lifetime. The very first foreign translation of the work was that into Russian, which, considering Russian censorship at the time, would seem a very unlikely event. But as it happened, ""Das Kapital"" actually came to enjoy greater renown in Russia than in any other country"" for many varying reasons, it won a warm reception in many political quarters in Russia, and it enjoyed a totally unexpected rapid and widespread success. The first Russian translation of ""Das Kapital"" came to have a profound influence the economic development of of Russia. It was frequently quoted in the most important economic and political discussions on how to industrialize Russia and the essential points of the work were seen by many as the essential questions for an industrializing Russia. "" ""Das Kapital"" arrived in Russia just at the moment that the Russian economy was recovering from the slump that followed Emancipation and was beginning to assume capitalist characteristics. Industrialization raised in the minds of the intelligentsia the question of their country's economic destiny. And it was precisely this concern that drew Mikhailovsky and many of the ""intelligenty"" to ""Das Kapital""."" (Resis, p. 232).The story of how the first printing of the first translation of ""Das Kapital"" came about, is quite unexpected. As the ""triumph of Marxism in backward Russia is commonly regarded as a historical anomaly"" (Resis, p. 221), so is the triumph of the first Russian edition of ""Das Kapital"". The main credit for the coming to be of the translation of ""Das Kapital"" must be given to Nicolai Danielson, later a highly important economist in his own right. The idea came from a circle of revolutionary youths in St. Petersburg, including N.F. Danielson, G.A. Lopatin, M.F. Negreskul, and N.N. Liubavin, all four of whom participated in the project. Danielson had read the work shortly after its publication and it had made such an impact on him that he decided to make it available to the Russian reading public. He persuaded N.I. Poliakov to run the risk of publishing it. ""Poliakov, the publisher, specialized in publishing authors, Russian and foreign, considered dangerous by the authorities. Poliakov also frequently subsidized revolutionaries by commissioning them to do translations for his publishing house. Diffusion of advanced ideas rather than profit was no doubt his primary motive in publishing the book."" (Resis, p. 222). Owing to Danielson's initiative, Poliakov engaged first Bakunin, and then Lopatin to do the translation. Danielson himself finished the translation and saw the work through press. It was undeniably his leadership that brought Marx to the Russian reading public. In fact, with the first Russian edition of ""Das Kapital"", Danielson was responsible for the first public success of the revolutionizing work. ""Few scholars today would deny that ""Das Kapital"" has had an enormous effect on history in the past hundred years. Nonetheless, when the book was published in Hamburg on September 5, 1867, it made scarcely a stir, except among German revolutionaries. Marx complained that his work was greeted by ""a conspiracy of silence"" on the part of ""a pack of liberals and vulgar economists."" However desperately he contrived to provoke established economists to take up ""Das Kapital""'s challenge to their work, his efforts came to nought. But in October 1868 Marx received good news from an unexpected source. From Nikolai Frantsevich Danielson, a young economist employed by the St. Petersburg Mutual Credit Society, came a letter informing Marx that N. P. Poliakov, a publisher of that city, desired to publish a Russian translation of the first volume of ""Das Kapital""" moreover, he also wanted to publish the forthcoming second volume. Danielson, the publisher's representative, requested that Marx send him the proofs of volume 2 as they came off the press so that Poliakov could publish both volumes simultaneously. Marx replied immediately. The publication of a Russian edition of volume 1, he wrote, should not be held up, because the completion of volume 2 might be delayed by some six months [in fact, it did not appear in Marx' life-time and was only published ab. 17 years later, in 1885]" and in any case volume 1 represented an independent whole. Danielson proceeded at once to set the project in motion. Nearly four years passed, however, before a Russian translation appeared. Indeed, a year passed before the translation was even begun, and four translators tried their hand at it before Danielson was able to send the manuscript to the printers in late December 1871."" (Resis, pp. 221-22). This explains how the book came to be translated, but how did this main work of revolutionary thought escape the rigid Russian censors? ""By an odd quirk of history the first foreign translation of ""Das Kapital"" to appear was the Russian, which Petersburgers found in their bookshops early in April 1872. Giving his imprimatur, the censor, one Skuratov, had written ""few people in Russia will read it, and still fewer will understand it."" He was wrong: the edition of three thousand sold out quickly"" and in 1880 Marx was writing to his friend F.A. Sorge that ""our success is still greater in Russia, where ""Kapital"" is read and appreciated more than anywhere else."" (PMM 359, p.218). Astonishingly, Within six weeks of the publication date, nine hundred copies of the edition of three thousand had already been sold.""Under the new laws on the press, ""Das Kapital"" could have been proscribed on any number of grounds. The Temporary Rules held, for example, that censorship must not permit publication of works that ""expound the harmful doctrines of socialism or communism"" or works that ""rouse enmity and hatred of one class for another."" The Board of Censors of Foreign Publications was specifically instructed to prohibit importation of works contrary to the tenets of the Orthodox Church or works that led to atheism, materialism, or disrespect for Scriptures. Nor did the recent fate of the works of Marx and Engels at the hands of the censors offer much hope that ""Das Kapital"" would pass censorship. As recently as August 11, the censors of foreign works had decided to ban importation of Engels' ""Die Lage der arbeitenden Klassen in England"", and, according to Lopatin, the censors reprimanded Poliakov for daring to run announcements on book jackets of the forthcoming publication of ""Das Kapital"". By 1872 the censors had prohibited the importation and circulation of all works by Marx and Engels except one - ""Das Kapital"". The book, as we shall see, had already won some recognition in Russia shortly after its publication in Germany. Not until 1871, however, did the censors render a judgment on the book, when the Central Committee of Censors of Foreign Publications, on the recommendation of its reader, permitted importation and circulation of the book both in the original language and in translation. The official reader had described the book as ""a difficult, inaccessible, strictly scientific work,"" implying that it could scarcely pose a danger to the state. [...] The length and complexity of the book prompted the office to divide the task of scrutinizing it between two readers, D. Skuratov, who read the first half of the book, and A. De-Roberti, who read the last half. Skuratov dutifully listed objectionable socialist and antireligious passages, taking special note of Marx's harsh attack on the land reforms General Kiselev had instituted in the Danubian Principalities. But in his report Skuratov dismissed these attacks as harmless, since they were imbedded in a ""colossal mass of abstruse, somewhat obscure politico-economic argumentation."" Indeed, he regarded the work as its own best antidote to sedition. ""It can be confidently stated,"" he wrote, ""that in Russia few will read it and even fewer will understand it."" Second, he said, the book could do little harm. Since the book attacked a system rather than individual persons, Skuratov implied that the book would not incite acts threatening the safety of the royal family and government officials. Third, he believed that the argument of the book did not apply to Russia. Marx attacked the unbridled competition practiced in the British factory system, and such attacks, Skuratov asserted, could find no target in Russia because the tsarist regime did not pursue a policy of laissez faire. Indeed, at that very moment, Skuratov stated, a special commission had drafted a plan that ""as zealously protects the workers' well-being from abuses on the part of the employers as it protects the employers' interests against lack of discipline and nonfulfillment of obligations on the part of the workers."" Repeating most of Skuratov's views, De-Roberti also noted that the book contained a good account of the impact of the factory system and the system of unpaid labor time that prevailed in the West. In spite of the obvious socialist tendency of the book, he concluded, a court case could scarcely be made against it, because the censors of foreign works had already agreed to permit importation and circulation of the German edition. With the last barrier removed, on March 27, 1872, the Russian translation of ""Das Kapital"" went on sale in the Russian Empire. The publisher, translators, and advocates of the book had persevered in the project for nearly four years until they were finally able to bring the book to the Russian reading public."" (Resis, pp. 220-22). The Russian authorities quickly realized, however, that Skuratov's statement could not have been more wrong, and the planned second edition of the Russian translation was forbidden"" thus it came to be published in New York, in 1890. That second edition is nearly identical to the first, which can be distinguished by the misplaced comma opposite ""p. 73"" in the table of contents (replaced by a full stop in the 2nd ed.) and the ""e"" at the end of l. 40 on p. 65 (replaced by a ""c"" in the 2nd ed.). A third edition, translated from the fourth German edition, appeared in 1898. Volumes 2 and 3 of ""Das Kapital"" appeared in Russian translation, also by Danielson, in 1885 and 1896.See: Albert Resis, Das Kapital Comes to Russia, in: Slavic Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Jun., 1970), pp. 219-237.‎

‎Kapital. Kritika Politicke Ekonomije. 2 vols. - [THE FIRST SERBO-CROATIAN TRANSLATION OF 'DAS KAPITAL']‎

‎Beograd, Zaklada Tiskare Narodnih Novia, 1933 & 1934. Large 8vo. 2 volumes both in publisher's original embossed blue cloth. Leather title-label to both spine. Extremities with wear and hindges weak. Occassional brownspotting throughout. Last leaf (advertisement) missing outer top corner. 837, (3)" 549, (2) pp.‎

‎The first Serbo-Croatian translation of Marx' landmark work, constituting what is arguably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century.Translator Mosa Pijade (1890-1957) is thought to have had a major influence on Marxist ideology as exposed during the old regime in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1925, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison because of his 'revolutionary activities' after World War I. He was discharged after 14 years in 1939 and imprisoned again in 1941 in the camp Bileca.""In prison he met Rodoljub Colakovic (1900-1983) a member of Crevena Pravda, a group accused of killing interior minister Milorad Draskovic in 1921. Together they translated volume one of ""Das Kapital"" in Serbo-Croatian and published it under the pseudonyms Milovan Porobic and R. Bosanac. The second volume was translated by Mosa Pijade alone."" (karlmarx. lu /Kapitalserb.htm)‎

‎Kapital. Krytyka ekonomji politycznej. Tom I. Ksiega pierwsza. Przebieg wytwarzani kapitalu.‎

‎Warszawa [Warsaw], Nakladem Spóldzielni Ksiegarskiej ""Ksiazka"", [1933] (1926 printed on title-page) Large8vo. In contemporary full blind-stamped cloth. Wear to extremities. Hindges a bit weak. (4), XXXVII, (1), 5-905, (5) pp.‎

‎Rare second Polish translation of Marx's Das Kapital. This edition is a new translation by the collective of Henryk Lauer, Ludwik Selen, Mieczyslaw Kwiatkowski, Jerzy Heryng. The planned second volume was never published.OCLC list no copies outside Poland.‎

‎Kapital. Poliitilise Ökonoomia Kriitika [i.e. German ""Das Kapital""]. - [FIRST ESTONIAN TRANSLATION OF MARX'S 'DAS KAPITAL']‎

‎Tallinn, Kirjastusühing ""Soprus"", 1936 4to. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with light wear and corners bumped. Housed in a nice full black cloth clamshell box with black leather title-label to spine with lettering in silver. Otherwise fine and clean. (8), 9-43, (3), 640 pp.‎

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‎The rare first complete Estonian translation of Karl Marx's 'Das Kapital'. The comparatively late translation was due to the fact that German was Estonia’s official language and the language of grammar school and higher education prior to 1918/1920. It was replaced by Russian starting in the 1890s. Translator Nigol Andresen (1899-1985) worked as a teatcher at various Estonian High Schools from 1918 to 1932. In 1932 he was dismissed for political reasons because of his membership in the Estonian Social Democratic Labor Part. In the same year he was elected to the Estonian Parliament, to which he formally belonged until 1937. In 1934 Andresen was expelled because of his contacts with the Communist Party from the Social Democratic Labor Party. He was then union secretary and became, after the Sovietization in 1940, a proponent of the new communist system. In a short period under the Vares Cabinet he functioned as foreign minister.At the outbreak of the German-Soviet War in 1941 he went to the Soviet Union and lived in Moscow. After returning to Estonia, he was from 1946 to 1949 Member of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic. However, at the infamous eighth plenum of the Estonian Communist Party of March 1950 he fell out of favor and was imprisoned. Only in 1955 he was released from custody.‎

‎Kapitalut. Kritika na politicheskata ekonomiia. [i.e. Bulgarian ""Das Kapital""]. [Translated by Georgi Bakalov]. - [FIRST FULL BULGARIAN TRANSLATION OF MARX'S 'DAS KAPITAL']‎

‎Stara Sagora, 1910. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine with wear. Upper inner corner of title-page with repair, missing the 'K' in 'Karl'. Two last leaves with marginal repairs, not affecting text. Light occassional brownspots throughtout. XXX, (2), 598, (2) pp. + frontiespiece of Marx.‎

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‎The very rare full Bulgarian translation by Georgi Bakalov from 1910 published simultaneously with Dimitar Blagoev's translation. Quite extraordinary two different Bulgarian translations, both complete, were made at the same time.Interestingly both translations seems to have been actively used though the 20ies and 30ies and both translations were reprinted simultaneously in 1930-31), both edited by Todor Pavlov. To our best knowledge Bulgarian is the only language which have had two complete translation published at the same time. Georgi Bakalov published his translation from the German, in his hometown Stara Zagora. The publisher was The Liberal Club, which was a printshop rather than a proper publisher. He was also a member of Bulgarian Social Democratic Party as of 1891 and, likely much similar to many of the early Bulgarian socialists, was active in education and socalled 'uchitelsko delo' (teachers' affairs). In 1891-93 he studied in Geneva and quickly befriended Plekhanov, whom he translated in the 1890s.OCLC only list no copies‎

‎Kapitalut. Kritika na politicheskata ekonomiia. [i.e. Bulgarian ""Das Kapital""]. [Translated by Dimitar Blagoev] (+) Kapitalut. [Translated by Georgi Bakalov] (+) Karlu Marksu i Negovoto Vreme [i.e. Bulgarian: ""Karl Marx and his Time""]. - [THE FIRST BULGARIAN TRANSLATIONS OF MARX'S 'DAS KAPITAL']‎

‎[Blagoev-translation:] Sofia, [presumably 1910 but august 1909 stated on last leaf of preface] & [Ba [Blagoev-translation:] 8vo. In a contemporary full cloth binding with red leather title-label with gilt lettering to spine. Spine with wear and light soiling to extremities. Hindges a bit weak First 10 leaves with stain in margin, otherwise a good copy. (6), XXXI, (1), 675, (1) pp.{Bakalov-translation:] 8vo. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Wear to extremities and hindges a bit weak Repair to inner margin of title-page. Internally fine and clean. XXX, (2), 598, (2) pp. + frontiespiece of Marx. Withbound is ""Karl Marx and His Time"": (1)-180 pp.‎

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‎A most interesting set consisting of the two first Bulgarian translations of Marx' 'Das Kapital'. Quite extraordinary in the history of translations of 'Das Kapital' two Bulgarian translation appeared, presumably, simultaneously and both translations seems to have been actively used though the 20ies and 30ies and they were reprinted simultaneously in 1930-31, both edited by Todor Pavlov. To our best knowledge Bulgarian is the only language which have had two complete translation published at the same time.The Bakalov-translation is certainly published in 1910. The Blagoew-translation, printed in Sofia, has often been referred to as being printed in 1909 and has occasionally been referred to as the first translation of the two, solely because his foreword was proceeded by ""August, 1909"". That the book was actually printed in 1909 has, however, recently been disputed. Both translators were well aware of each other and perhaps Blagoew simply wrote ""August 1909"" to gain primacy in being the first to have a complete translation published: ""I was not able to prove this, but this is either a typo (unlikely) or was Blagoev's way to acquire primacy over the other translation from 1910, that of Georgi Bakalov"" (Panayotov, Capital without Value: The Soviet-Bulgarian Synthesis). Translator Dimitar Blagoev, the founder and leader of the Bulgarian Worker's Social Democratic Party became (or Narrow Socialists, or Tesniaki), became the the first Marxist propangandist in Bulgaria. About the present translation Blagoev said: ""The translation was made from Russian, but we can rightly say that it came from Russian as well as from Russian German and French. We all had four Russian issuesbut the basis for this was the last Russian translation, which was edited by G. P. Struwe, as it came closest to the original. In all this, however, we had to compare, almost line by line, with the original of the last, fourth German edition of Friedrich Engels and the French translation, which was specially reviewed by Marx himself.""Blagoev was also a prominent proponent of ideas for the establishment of a Balkan Federation, leading the Narrow Socialists into the Communist International in 1919, where the party changed its name to the Bulgarian Communist Party. However, during this period Blagoev and the party as a whole did not completely adopt Bolshevik's positions on the basic questions. This determined the party's policies during the Vladaya Soldiers' Rebellion of 1918 and the military coup of 9 June 1923 when the party adopted a position of neutrality. He was also an opponent of the failed September Uprising and thought that there were no ripe conditions for a revolution in Bulgaria yet.A partial translation by Blagoev (only 122 pp) was published in 1905 and is of the utmost scarcity. Georgi Bakalov published his translation from the German, in his hometown Stara Zagora. The publisher was The Liberal Club, which was a printshop rather than a proper publisher. He was also a member of Bulgarian Social Democratic Party as of 1891 and, likely much similar to many of the early Bulgarian socialists, was active in education and socalled 'uchitelsko delo' (teachers' affairs). In 1891-93 he studied in Geneva and quickly befriended Plekhanov, whom he translated in the 1890s.OCLC only list no copies of either translation. We know, however, that a copy of both translations are held in the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (Bulgaria).‎