一位独立且伟大的人物——麦克莱伦所著《恩格斯传》评介

An Independent and Great Man——A review of Biography of Engels by McClellan

被称为“第二提琴手”的恩格斯对马克思主义的创立和无产阶级的发展起着重要作用。写作关于恩格斯的传记最早始于马克思,1880年马克思写了“弗·恩格斯的小册子‘社会主义从空想到科学的发展’法文版序言”,列宁在1895年秋写了著名的《弗里德里希·恩格斯》一文。其后,国外学者特别是德国和苏联学者对恩格斯的生平做了大量的研究,出版了一些大型的传记著作。但相比于对马克思传记的关注程度,学术界对恩格斯传记写作的数量较少,关注度较低。其中,麦克莱伦长期从事马克思、恩格斯生平和马克思主义研究,他在充分利用新史料的基础上写作了《恩格斯传》,较为客观地评价了恩格斯的一生,是一部有着鲜明特色的著作。

Engels,known as the“second fiddle player”,played an important role in the establishment of Marx's and the development of the proletariat.Writing a biography of Engels began with Marx.In 1880,Marx wrote Preface to French edition of F.Engels's pamphlet'Socialism from Fantasy to The Development of Science’,and Lenin wrote the famous article“Fried rich Engels”in the autumn of 1895.Later,foreign scholars,especially German and Soviet scholars,did a lot of research on Engels'life and published some large biographical works.However,compared with the degree of attention paid to Marx's biography,the academic circle paid less attention to Engels's biography.Among them,McClellan has been engaged in the life of Marx and Engels and the study of Marxism for a long time.On the basis of making full use of new historical materials,he wrote A Biography of Engels,which objectively evaluated Marx's life.It is a work with distinct characteristics.