Research Catalog

Title

The Russian Revolution : a view from the third world / Walter Rodney ; edited and with an introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse J. Benjamin ; foreword by Vijay Prashad.

Author

Rodney, Walter

Publication

• London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kelley, Robin D. G.
• Benjamin, Jesse J.
• Prashad, Vijay

Description

lxxiii, 258 pages : portrait; 21 cm

Summary

"In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightning rod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked Jamaica's Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generation how to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the thirty-eight-year-old Rodney was assassinated. Walter Rodney's Russian Revolution collects surviving texts from a series of lectures he delivered at the University of Dar es Salaam, an intellectual hub of the independent Third World. It had been his intention to work these into a book, a goal completed posthumously with the editorial aid of Robin D. G. Kelley and Jesse Benjamin. Moving across the historiography of the long Russian Revolution with clarity and insight, Rodney transcends the ideological fault lines of the Cold War. Surveying a broad range of subjects--the Narodniks, social democracy, the October Revolution, civil war, and the challenges of Stalinism--Rodney articulates a distinct viewpoint from the Third World, one that grounds revolutionary theory and history with the people in motion."--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Soviet Union
• Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921
• Rodney, Walter
• Socialism
• Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921 > Historiography
• Historiography
• Political and social views
• Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921)
• Rodney, Walter > Political and social views
• Black author
• History
• 1917-1921

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-244) and index.

Contents

Foreword : Rodney and the Revolution / Vijay Prashad -- Editors' note -- Introduction : an "African perspective" on the Russian Revolution / Jesse J. Benjamin and Robin D.G. Kelley -- The two world views of the Russian Revolution -- The Russian regime and the Soviet Revolution -- Marx, Marxism and the Russian left -- Trotsky as historian of the Russian Revolution -- On the "inevitability" of the Russian Revolution -- On democracy : Lenin, Kautsky and Luxemburg -- Building the socialist state -- The transformation of empire -- The critique of Stalinism.

Call Number

Sc D 18-362

ISBN

• 9781786635303
• 1786635305

LCCN

2018016223

OCLC

1037884223

Author

Rodney, Walter, author.

Title

The Russian Revolution : a view from the third world / Walter Rodney ; edited and with an introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse J. Benjamin ; foreword by Vijay Prashad.

Publisher

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-244) and index.

Chronological Term

1917-1921

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Kelley, Robin D. G., editor, writer of introduction.

Benjamin, Jesse J., writer of introduction.

Prashad, Vijay, writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

Sc D 18-362