Travellers of the World Revolution (eBook)

A Global History of the Communist International

Brigitte Studer (Autor)

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2023 | Ebook UK & RoW
496 Seiten
Verso UK (Verlag)
978-1-83976-803-3 (ISBN)

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The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on 20th-century history. The book offers a new and fascinating account of this transnational organisation founded in 1919 by Lenin and Trotsky and dissolved by Stalin in 1943, telling the story through the eyes of the activists who became its "e;professional revolutionaries"e;. Studer follows such figures as Willi M,nzenberg, Mikhail Borodin, M.N. Roy and Evelyn Trent, Tina Modotti, Agnes Smedley and many others less well-known as they are despatched to the successive political hotspots of the 1920s and '30s, from revolutionary Berlin to Baku, from Shanghai to Spain, from Nazi Germany to Stalin's Moscow. It traces their journeys from revolutionary hope to accommodation, defeat or death, looking at questions of motivation and commitment, agency and negotiation, of life and love, conflict and frustration. In doing so, it reveals a forgotten Comintern, the expression of a multi-dimensional revolutionary moment, which attracted not only working-class but feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist activists, highlighting the role of women in the Comintern and the centrality of anti-colonialism to the Communist project. The book concludes with a reflection on the ultimate demise of a historically unique undertaking.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.6.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 2 x 8pp b&w plate sections
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: anti-colonialism • Anti-Imperialism • anti-racism • bolshevik revolution • Cadres • Chinese revolution • clandestine organisations • Comintern • Comintern envoys • communism • communist everyday life • Communist International • communist networks • cosmopolitan Shanghai • Feminism • global action • Global History • Global Networks • interconnected Berlin • international communism • internationalism • International solidarity • inter-war period • intimate spaces of activism • Lenin • Leninism • local hubs • militants • Moscow • multinational revolutionary hotspots • Nazi Germany • nomadic activists • October Revolution 1917 • Political activism • Political exile • political radicalism • professional revolutionaries • proletarian revolution • revolutionary Wuhan • Russian Revolution • secret agents • Socialism • Spanish Civil War • Stalinism • Stalinist Terror • Stalin’s Moscow • Transnational Mobility • Trotsky • women as political actors • women revolutionaries • World revolution
• ISBN-10: 1-83976-803-7 / 1839768037
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-803-3 / 9781839768033