Friedrich Engels 1881, both Marx and Engels began to contemplate a course of development in Russia that would lead directly to the communist stage without the intervening bourgeois stage. This analysis was based on what Marx and Engels saw as the exceptional characteristics of the Russian village commune or obshchina. Although doubt was cast on this theory by Georgi Plekhanov, Plekhanov's reasoning was based on the first edition of "Das Kapital" (1867), which predated Marx's interest in Russian peasant communes by two years. Later editions of the text demonstrate Marx's sympathy for the argument of Nikolay Chernyshevsky, that it should be possible
Prague Manifesto Prague Manifesto The Prague Manifesto (in Russian: Пражский Манифест) was a document written by several members of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), an anti-communist coalition of former Soviet military and citizens who aimed to overthrow Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and establish a non-communist government in Russia, in alliance with Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The manifesto was published on 14 November 1944. The Manifesto opened with a preamble that strongly criticized Stalin for crimes against the people of the USSR, including genocide via repression and engineered famines, and suppression of personal freedoms.