73' in the table of contents is replaced by a full stop and the 'e' at the end of l.

The printing of a second edition was forbidden in Russia and so in 1890 a New York publisher brought out an nearly identical reprint of the first edition: that second edition is distinguished from the first in that the misplaced comma opposite 'p. Unfortunately Engels did not see the work completed he died in 1895, the year before the final volume appeared in St Petersburg. After Marx's death in 1883, when Engels was preparing the other volumes for publication in German (they appeared in 18 respectively), he sent advanced proofs of volume II to Danielson in February 1885 to help speed the translation and later, in 1894, again sent proofs to Russia for translation. Volume I went to the press in October 1871, Marx returned his proof corrections smartly at the start of November, and the book was finally published on 27 March 1872. Marx had been closely involved in the process of creating an edition for Russian readers, and corresponded often with the translators German Aleksandrovich Lopatin and Nikolai Frantsevich Danielson.

Marx thought the translation 'masterly' and, in 1880, wrote to his friend Friedrich Sorge, his chief co-worker in America, that 'our success is still greater in Russia, where Das Kapital is read and appreciated more than anywhere else.' Though the censors viewed its appearance complacently - 'few people in Russia will read it, and fewer still will understand it' - the first volume, issued in 3,000 copies, was quite successful and the edition rapidly sold out, with the first 900 copies sold in under two months. This was the first foreign translation of 'the Bible of Marxism'. First edition in Russian of all three volumes of Das Kapital, extremely rarely found complete.

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