The Peasant War in Germany
Friedrich Engels
Engels's history of the German Peasant War of 1525, written right after the defeat of the 1848 revolutions. It reads the uprising led by Thomas Müntzer as a class struggle and contrasts it with the role of Martin Luther.
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