 "MEGA1" was originally intended to comprise 42 volumes, of which 12 volumes were published between 1927 and 1935.After Riazanov was removed as director of the Marx-Engels Institute in February 1931 (and killed in a perfunctory trial in 1938) and Hitler rose to power in Germany in 1933, "MEGA1" was silently discontinued.Only after Stalin's death was a second attempt undertaken in the 1960s.