Rein Gold a publication by Hermann Jellinek in 1848); by "The Communist Manifesto" of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (published in London in 1848); by Marx's "Das Kapital" (1867-1894); and by Richard Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (1848-1874) and a recent study thereof by law expert Wolfgang Schild entitled "Staatsdämmerung" (2007). "rein GOLD" was suggested to Jelinek by Bayerische Staatsoper München. "rein GOLD. ein bühnenessay". Hardcover, 223 p., Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2013, Rein Gold rein GOLD. ein bühnenessay is a prose work by Elfriede Jelinek, the Austrian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, published in 2013
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,