The Civil War in France

The present English edition of Karl Marx’s The Civil War in France is a reproduction of the third edition published by the Foreign Languages Press Peking in 1977. It is compiled according to the Chinese edition of the same book published by the People’s Publishing house Peking in May 1964. Engels’ introduction and the Addresses of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association on the Franco-Prussian War and on the Civil War in France are reprinted from the text given in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Selected Works English edition Moscow 1951 Vol. I. The two drafts of the Civil War in France follow the English text in The Archives of Marx and Engels Moscow 1934 Vol. III (VIII). Obvious corrections of spelling and grammar are not indicated. Necessary additions of words and translations of French and German words and passages which appeared in Marx’s manuscript are put in square brackets. The footnotes and notes at the end of the book are compiled by FLP from various sources.