The Communist Manifesto (Trans. from Germ. by Volodymyr Levynskyi): Cleveland, The Robitnyk Publishing [The Worker Publishing], 1917, 60 p.

The Communist Manifesto [Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei] is the first programmatic document of the communist movement, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on behalf of the Second Congress of the Communist League. It was first published on February 21, 1848. The text encompasses the main theses of historical materialism, analyzes the development of bourgeois society, the role of the proletariat, and outlines the tasks of communist parties in the global context.

The edition of The Communist Manifesto published by the Ukrainian Federation of the American Socialist Party in Cleveland in 1917 constitutes one of the earliest translations of the document into Ukrainian. The publication was oriented towards the Ukrainian diaspora in the USA and had an agitational-educational character. The translation was executed in Ukrainian Latin script (zhelekhivka), reflecting the practice of linguistic adaptation among the diaspora press. The translation was executed in zhelekhivka, reflecting the practice of linguistic adaptation among the diaspora press. The edition was printed by the circulation of the newspaper "Robitnyk" [The Worker], which was the organ of Ukrainian socialists in North America.

Dmytro Zabolotnii

Contents

I. Bourgeois and Proletarians

II. Proletarians and Communists

III. Socialist and Communist Literature

IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties