1. The Civil War in France
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1871
   Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Paris Communards of 1871 and their historical experience to learn from.
   
2. The Condition of the Working Class in England
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1845
   
3. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1852
   Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar -- the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Marx traces how the conflict of different social interests manifest themselves in the complex web of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a struggle and its real social content.
4. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
   Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1977
   A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.

Experts on European History in the Sources Directory

1. The British Museum
2. Deutsches Historisches Museum
3. Kunsthistorisches Museum