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Written in 1850, under the impetus of the defeat of the revolutionary forces in the 1848-49 European-wide democratic revolutions. In studying the great uprising of the German peasants in 1525 Engels wanted to show that Germany indeed had a revolutionary history and, furthermore, that the burghers and merchants played the same miserable, treacherous role then as they did in the recently defeated revolution. He also draws a fascinating portrait of Thomas M