Jonathan Sperber

A survey of the history of Europe from the age of the French Revolution and its aftermath, up to 1850. It offers a continent-wide overview examining broad trends, from the Atlantic to the Urals, and the Baltic to the Mediterranean.

Challenging this antiquated portrait, Sperber demonstrates that Marx had more in common with Robespierre than with 20th-century Communists. Using the complete Marx and Engels database only recently opened, Sperber juxtaposes the private man against the public agitator.