The russian revolution : a view from the third world / Walter Rodney ; introduction by Jesse J. Benjamin and Robin D.G. Kelley ; foreword by Vijay Prashad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodney, Walter, author.

Contributor:

Benjamin, Jesse J., writer of introduction.

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

Prashad, Vijay, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rodney, Walter--Political and social views.

Rodney, Walter.

Political and social views.

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.

Soviet Union.

History.

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Historiography.

Historiography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

lxxiii, 258 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn : Verso, [2018]

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.

Contents:

Introduction. An "African perspective" on the Russian Revolution / Robin D. G. Kelley and Jesse J. Benjamin

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rodney, Walter, author. Walter Rodney's Russian Revolution

ISBN:

9781786635303

1786635305

OCLC:

1037884223