The Frankfurt Institute mediated publishing Marx and Engels complete edition across SPD and Moscow

Evidence

Since the posthumous papers of Marx and Engels are held by the archive of the German Social Democratic Party in Berlin, and a complete edition of their works is not possible without using these papers exhaustively, the first phase of the work will be carried out there … Photographic copying will be carried out for the most part by the Institute of Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, with the greatest possible care and with a complete record of all peculiarities and special characteristics of the originals which cannot be recorded by photography. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 119 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

David Ryazanov, an early Russian Social Democrat, had already consulted the Marx-Engels unpublished papers before the war in connection with current political problems.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. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 116</cite> (#qualifies`, via linked claim)

Engels had bequeathed his own and Marx’s unpublished works to Eduard Bernstein and August Bebel, or rather to German Social Democracy as a whole. The party members entrusted with the editing of these papers, Bernstein, Mehring and Kautsky, made no effort to go through them systematically or edit them conscientiously. They did, however, take the trouble, in their incomplete edition of the letters, to undertake countless excisions and alterations. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 116 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ryazanov founded the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1920 with Frankfurt mediation; A complete Marx-Engels edition depended on the SPD’s Berlin archive holdings — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 119; Ryazanov’s Moscow institute acquired rights to publish Marx-Engels manuscripts — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 116 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A complete Marx-Engels edition depended on the SPD’s Berlin archive holdings #qualifies (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 119
• Ryazanov’s Moscow institute acquired rights to publish Marx-Engels manuscripts #qualifies (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 116
• German Social Democrats neglected and censored Marx and Engels’ papers #contradicts (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 116