Ryazanov’s Moscow institute acquired rights to publish Marx-Engels manuscripts

Evidence

David Ryazanov, an early Russian Social Democrat, had already consulted the Marx-Engels unpublished papers before the war in connection with current political problems. With Bebel’s support, he had edited a volume of selected works by Marx and Engels, and in December 1920 he founded the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow, whose task he saw as investigating `the genesis, development and spread of the theory and practice of scientific socialism, of revolutionary communism, as it was created and formulated by Marx and Engels’. Under a contract with Bernstein, Ryazanov acquired the right to publish the manuscripts of Marx and Engels in Russian. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 116

Categorization

• XREF: Ryazanov later became a victim of the Stalinist purges and was executed — the irony of a rigorous Marxist scholar built on textual fidelity being purged is a connection to Soviet institutional history. — connects to: German Social Democrats neglected and censored Marx and Engels’ papers — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 116; Ryazanov founded the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1920 with Frankfurt mediation; The Frankfurt Institute mediated publishing Marx and Engels complete edition across SPD and Moscow
• QUESTION: What happened to Ryazanov’s edition project after his purge — did the Frankfurt Institute’s role in the MEGA edition shift?