{"product_id":"mehring-the-lessing-legend-russian-1907-меринг-легенда-о-лессинге","title":"Mehring, Franz. The Lessing Legend: With an Appendix on Historical Materialism (Legenda o Lessinge), 1907. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eФранц Меринг.\u003cbr\u003eЛегенდა о Лессинге : с приложением статьи об историческом материализме. \/ Перевод с немецкого I. T. ; под. ред. А. Луначарского. Серия: «Дешевая библиотека Товарищества \"Знание\"» № 288.\u003cbr\u003eСанкт-Петербург : Типо-Литография С. М. Муллер, 1907.\u003cbr\u003e512 с. ; Обычный формат. В издательской мягкой обложке.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eFranz Mehring.\u003cbr\u003eThe Lessing Legend: With an Appendix on Historical Materialism. \/ Translated from German by I. T.; edited by A. Lunacharsky. Series: \"Cheap Library of the Znanie Partnership\" No. 288.\u003cbr\u003eSaint Petersburg : Typo-Lithography of S. M. Muller, 1907.\u003cbr\u003e512 pp. ; Regular format. Original publisher's softcover. In Russian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 1907 edition of Franz Mehring’s The Lessing Legend is a landmark of Marxist historiography and literary criticism, published in Russia during the politically charged aftermath of the 1905 Revolution. The text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of the German Enlightenment, including the arrangement of the Prussian state’s myths surrounding Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Mehring, a leading theoretician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, seeks to \"rescue\" Lessing from bourgeois distortions, portraying him instead as a radical pioneer of the revolutionary middle class whose work laid the groundwork for modern dialectical thought. The volume is significantly enhanced by the inclusion of Mehring's seminal essay on Historical Materialism, which serves as a methodological manual for applying Marxist theory to cultural history.\u003cbr\u003eThe edition was issued as part of the \"Cheap Library\" series by the Znanie (Knowledge) Partnership, the progressive publishing house famously co-directed by Maxim Gorky. Edited by the future Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment, Anatoly Lunacharsky, the book was designed to be accessible to the radicalized intelligentsia and self-educated workers of the Russian Empire. Spanning 512 pages and printed by the Typo-Lithography of S. M. Muller in Saint Petersburg, it represents the high point of pre-revolutionary social-democratic publishing. For bibliophiles, historians of Marxist thought, and collectors of early 20th-century Russian ephemera, this 1907 imprint is a vital primary source, documenting the systematic efforts to introduce Western European materialist philosophy into the Russian revolutionary consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43963107606570,"sku":"EB-306421541369","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/57_b33be07f-7f6f-4ce7-abdd-61fc997c0730.jpg?v=1768161171","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/mehring-the-lessing-legend-russian-1907-%d0%bc%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b3-%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%b3%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d0%be-%d0%bb%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%81%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b3%d0%b5","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}