Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe
Also known as MEGA
The ' (MEGA') is the largest collection of the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It is a historical-critical edition that aims to publish all of their written works in their original languages, including manuscripts, letters, and notebooks. The project is intended to produce a complete, scholarly, and politically independent edition that documents the intellectual development of Marx and Engels.
Key facts
- Book.name
- Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe
- Book.image
- MEGA1 MEGA2.jpg
- Book.caption
- Volumes I of MEGA¹ (left) and MEGA²
- Book.author
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Book.editor
- International Marx-Engels Foundation (IMES)
- Book.country
- Germany, Russia, Netherlands, international
- Book.language
- Original languages, primarily German
- Book.genre
- Collected works, critical edition
- Book.publisher
- Dietz Verlag, Akademie Verlag, De Gruyter
- Book.published
- 1927–1941 (MEGA¹; 12 volumes) 1975–present (MEGA²; 62 volumes, 114 planned)
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Prehistory: The Viennese Plan
- First edition (''MEGA¹'')
- Second edition (''MEGA²'')
- Soviet-GDR project
- Post-1990 international project
- Structure and principles
- Scholarly significance
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- External links
The ' (MEGA') is the largest collection of the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It is a historical-critical edition that aims to publish all of their written works in their original languages, including manuscripts, letters, and notebooks. The project is intended to produce a complete, scholarly, and politically independent edition that documents the intellectual development of Marx and Engels.
The history of the MEGA is divided into two main periods. The first edition, known as MEGA¹, began in the Soviet Union in the 1920s under the direction of David Riazanov at the Marx–Engels Institute in Moscow. It was an ambitious international and academic project, but it fell victim to Stalinism; Riazanov was removed in 1931, and the project was ultimately discontinued in 1941 after publishing only 12 volumes.