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  The Frock-coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (Hardback) By (author) Tristram Hunt

  

  

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  Short Description for The Frock-coated CommunistBorn to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, Friedrich Engels enjoyed the middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman. Yet he was also the co-founder of international communism. This book looks at how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with this uncompromising political philosophy.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 30 April 2009
  • Format: Hardback 480 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Marxism & Communism | Social & Political Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9780713998528 ISBN 10: 0713998520
  • Sales rank: 17,473

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• Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable, middle-class life of a Victorian gentleman. Yet Engels was also the co-founder of international communism - the philosophy which in the 20th century came to control one third of the human race. He was the co-author of "The Communist Manifesto", a ruthless party tactician, and the man who sacrificed his best years so Karl Marx could write "Das Kapital". Tristram Hunt relishes the diversity and exuberance of Engels' era: how one of the great bon viveurs of Victorian Britain reconciled his raucous personal life with this uncompromising political philosophy.Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Europe and industrializing England - of Manchester mills, Paris barricades, and East End strikes - it is a story of devoted friendship, class compromise, ideological struggle, and family betrayal.