Marxist historiography the liberatory intent of Marxist historiography; such practitioners often refer to their work as "marxian" or "Marxian". Friedrich Engels' most important historical contribution was "Der deutsche Bauernkrieg" ("The German Peasants' War"), which analysed social warfare in early Protestant Germany in terms of emerging capitalist classes. "The German Peasants' War" indicate the Marxist interest in history from below and class analysis, and attempts a dialectical analysis. Marx's most important works on social and political history include "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon", "The Communist Manifesto", "The German Ideology", and those chapters of "Das Kapital" dealing with the historical emergence of capitalists
The Communist Manifesto in theory; Marxist works such as the "Manifesto" or "Das Kapital" were read primarily by party theoreticians. On the other hand, small, dedicated militant parties and Marxist sects in the West took pride in knowing the theory; Hobsbawm says "This was the milieu in which 'the clearness of a comrade could be gauged invariably from the number of earmarks on his Manifesto. Following the October Revolution of 1917 that swept the Vladimir Lenin-led Bolsheviks to power in Russia, the world's first socialist state was founded explicitly along Marxist lines. The Soviet Union, which Bolshevik Russia would become a part of,