FIRST ROMANIAN TRANSLATION OF 'DAS KAPITAL'

MARX, KARL.

Capitalul. Critica Economiei Politice.

[No place], Editura Partidului Comunist Roman, 1947.

Royal8vo. In publisher's half cloth Binding with waterstain, affecting both front and back board. Hindges weak Internally with a few marginal annotations, othwise interanlly fine and clean. 780, (1) pp + frontispiece.

First Romanian translation of 'Das Kapital', Marx' landmark work, constituting what is arguably the greatest revolutionary work of the nineteenth century. It is the first translation of the many translation from the post-war decades in countries with communist government. It even predates the translation into any of the USSR-languages.

As World War II ended, Romania, a former Axis member, was occupied by the Soviet Union, the sole representative of the Allies. On 6 March 1945, after mass demonstrations by communist sympathizers and political pressure from the Soviet representative of the Allied Control Commission, a new pro-Soviet government that included members of the previously outlawed Romanian Workers' Party was installed. Gradually, more members of the Communist Party and communist-aligned parties gained control of the administration and pre-war political leaders were steadily eliminated from political life. In December 1947, King Michael was coerced to abdicate and the People's Republic of Romania was declared. The present translation was paid for by the Romanian Communist Party.

Order-nr.: 56933