![]() ![]() The philosophy of Marx, or Marxism, had fruitful soil on which to grow and become a vital ingredient in the overthrow of autocracy. The Crimean War (1853-56), the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) and the Great War were stimuli for far-reaching changes in the political structure of a country that tried throughout to preserve its autocratic regime. ![]() ![]() The influence of Das Kapital was strengthened by the turbulence of the three unsuccessful wars waged by Russia during the period in question the maxim that wars engender change could be applied most aptly to Russia. ![]() Its theories and analyses were to influence Russian political thought in revolutionary circles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and have a significant bearing on the events leading up to the Revolution and its outcome. The centenary of the Russian Revolution fell in the same year as the 150th anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s famous work, Das Kapital. To what extent did that work shape the social and political landscape in Russia in the years leading up to 1917? Dairmid Gunn explains how Marxist thought tapped into stirrings among the Russian intelligentsia. 2017 was not only the centenary of the Russian Revolution it also marked 150 years since the publication of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital. ![]()
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