Absolutisim and Revolution in Germany 1525-1848

Germany from Luther's time to the age of Marx saw the rise of Prussian absolutism and the growth of the revolutionary proletariat. Mehring's book - here published in English for the first time - gives a clear and penetrating account of the development of the German state and its history of class struggle. Writing from a standpoint of historical materialism, Mehring reveals how the power of Fredrick the Great rested on feudal backwardness, how the impotent German bourgeoisie clung to absolutism in the face of the revolutionary workers of 1848.