The Communist Manifesto the Prussian police. At their trial in Cologne 18 months later in late 1852 they were sentenced to 3–6 years' imprisonment. For Engels, the revolution was "forced into the background by the reaction that began with the defeat of the Paris workers in June 1848, and was finally excommunicated 'by law' in the conviction of the Cologne Communists in November 1852". After the defeat of the 1848 revolutions the "Manifesto" fell into obscurity, where it remained throughout the 1850s and 1860s. Hobsbawm says that by November 1850 the "Manifesto" "had become sufficiently scarce for Marx to think it worth reprinting
Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (), or RCWP-CPSU, is a currently unregistered communist party in Russia. It is considered the republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001). The RCWP-CPSU is led by Viktor Tyulkin, who was co-chairman with Anatolii Kriuchkov until the latter died in 2005). It publishes a newspaper called "Trudovaja Rossija" (; "Working People's Russia") and the journal "Sovetskij Sojuz" (; "Soviet Union"). The RCWP-CPSU claims to have supported all the biggest occupations and