The Communist Manifesto New York City. However, by the mid 1870s the "Communist Manifesto" remained Marx and Engels' only work to be even moderately well-known. Over the next forty years, as social-democratic parties rose across Europe and parts of the world, so did the publication of the "Manifesto" alongside them, in hundreds of editions in thirty languages. Marx and Engels wrote a new preface for the 1882 Russian edition, translated by Georgi Plekhanov in Geneva. In it they wondered if Russia could directly become a communist society, or if she would become capitalist first like other European countries. After Marx's death in 1883,
Prague Manifesto Soviet Constitution, however, the Prague Manifesto was anti-communist, calling for the abolition of collective farms, among other things. Many aspects of the Manifesto closely resemble the political program of the Russian emigré organisation, the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS), of whom several of Vlasov's key allies were members, such as General Feodor Trukhin. The Manifesto specified that an "honorable peace" with Germany "not disturbing the honor" of Russia would be achieved. It also stated that the help of Germany was welcome as it provided "the only realistic possibility" of removing Stalin from power. General Vlasov proclaimed the Prague Manifesto