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The red and the black the Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic /

This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and variou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Featherstone, David, 1974- (Editor ), Høgsbjerg, Christian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Colección:Racism, resistance and social change.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Red October and the Black Atlantic
  • David Featherstone and Christian Høgsbjerg Part I Racism, resistance and revolution1 Claude McKay's Bolshevization in London
  • Winston James2 From Russian colonies to Black America ... and back: Lenin and Langston Hughes
  • Matthieu Renault3 African American literature in the Soviet Union, 1917-1930s: contacts, translations, criticism and editorial policy
  • Olga Panova Part II Spreading the Revolution Across the Black Atlantic4 Bolshevism and African American agency in the African American Radical Press, 1917-24
  • Cathy Bergin5 International Communist trade union organisations and the call to black toilers in the interwar Atlantic world
  • Holger Weiss6 Firebrands, trade unionists and Marxists: the shadow of the Russian Revolution, the colonial state and radicalism in Guyana, 1917-57- Nigel Westmaas7 Racialising the Caribbean Basin: the Communist racial agenda for the American hemisphere, 1931-35- Sandra Pujals8 The Left Book Club and its associates: The transnational circulation of socialist ideas in an Atlantic network- Matheus Cardoso da Silva Part III Africa, the Soviet Union and the Cold War9 The beginning of the Cold War in the Gold Coast?
  • Marika Sherwood10 Decolonisation and the Cold War: African student elites in the USSR, 1955-64
  • Harold D. Weaver11 'Peoples' Friendship' in the Cold War: the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University
  • Rachel RubinAfterword: A Black journey of Red hope
  • Maxim Matusevich