Marx and Russia

Yesterday, I attended the exhibition, dedicated to 200 years of Marx in Museum of Contemprorary History of Russia in Moscow. And I think it will be important to pay attention to the part about Marx and Russia, since a lot of far right "experts" in his b-thday wrote articles about his so called russophobia.

From the exhibition:

In the 1860s turned to the study of socioeconomic development of Russia. After reading Flerovsky's book, Marx begun to study Russia using original Russian-language sources.

The personal libraries of Marx contained more than 500 russian books. Marx carefully studied Russian books, many of which he summed up.Marx was familiar with the works of Dostoevsky, N.Dobrolyubov, N.Nekrasov and others. Russian music was played in his house, piano scores of M.Glinka operas and Russian romantic songs were performed.

In the years 1875-1876 Marx compried a series of extracts called Russica, including abstracts of Russian books,articles and statistical materials. As Engels wrote , " thanks to the variety of forms of land ownership and the explotation of agricultural products in Russia in terms of land rent, Russia should play the same role that England played in Volume I in the study of industrial wage labor".As new materials were published ,Marx continued to study this topic. The contents of the extracts served as basis for Marx conclusions on the nature and prospects of development in Russia.

"Capital" was the first work of Marx legally published in Russia, was the first translation into of foreign language.

Also, on exhibition you can find interview of Marx to New York times about his hopes about Russia (fucking insane russophobe)

And in case of Poland, I think there is nothing russophobic in independence of Poland from Russian Empire. Poland was the part of Russian Empire with the least integration with the rest of country.Before annexion of Poland, belorussian peasants hoped to get freedom from polish panes with our help.We came here and we did nothing ,because tsarist Russia admired polish panes and didnt pay attention about their terrible relations to belorussian peasants, so in the end with Poland we would have lost our fraternal nations. So,in fact it was liberation of Russia in realioty for better future of us,Ukraine and Belorussia.