Marx, Karl,  1818-1883 <br/><br/>
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Bonaparte  Translation of Achtzehnte brumaire  Release date is 2006-02-19 
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<br/><br/> "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" by Karl Marx is an essay written between December 1851 and March 1852. Marx analyzes the 1851 French coup d'état that transformed Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte from president into emperor. Applying his theory of historical materialism, Marx examines how class struggle and divisions among social groups enabled "a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero's part." The work explores the emergence of the Bonapartist state and features Marx's famous observation that history repeats itself—first as tragedy, then as farce. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>France -- History -- Second Republic, 1848-1852 France -- History -- Coup d'état, 1851 France -- History -- February Revolution, 1848 France -- Politics and government -- 1848-1852 Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 
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