本书是民主德国高等和专业教育部为在高校大学生中进行马克思列宁主义基础理论教育而编写的三本教科书之一。1974年到1982年的几年中,本书先后发行了六版,1983年由民主德国科学出版社在柏林出了第七修订版(1983年后虽几经再版,但都没有再进行修订)。这一版由莱比锡卡尔、马克思大学负责修订,G·格罗塞尔担任主编。在修订过程中,编者参考了近些年来马克思列宁主义 This book is one of three textbooks written by the German Ministry of Higher Education and Professionalism of the Democratic Institute for Basic Education in Marxism-Leninism among College Students. In the years from 1974 to 1982, the book was distributed six times in succession. In 1983, the seventh revised edition of the German version of Democracy was published in Berlin (after several reprinted editions after 1983, but no further revision was made). This edition is being revised by Lebisikar, University of Marx, with Grosser as editor-in-chief. In the course of the revision, editors made reference to Marxism-Leninism in recent years