Walter Rodney's Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World - Couverture souple

Rodney, Walter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1786635305 ISBN 13 : 9781786635303

Editeur : Verso Books, 2018

Synopsis

Renowned Pan-African and socialist theorist on the Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jesse Benjamin is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Kennesaw State University. The author of more than 60 articles, chapters, and books, he chairs the publication committee of the Walter Rodney Foundation.

Robin D. G. Kelley is professor of history at UCLA. He is the author of five books, most recently Africa Speaks, America Answers!: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times.

Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Reseach and Chief Editor of LeftWord Books. He is the author of The Poorer Nations and the editor of Letters from Palestine, both from Verso.

Walter Rodney was an internationally renowned historian of colonialism and a leader of Black Power and Pan-African movements across the diaspora, most notably the Guyanese Working People's Alliance. His life and work brought together struggles for independence on the African continent with the strivings of the black working classes of North America and the Caribbean basin. On June the 13th, 1980, Rodney was assassinated, most likely by the then-president of Guyana. He was 38 years old.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786635305
• ISBN 13: 9781786635303
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: VERSO BOOKS; https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb; ; . Avda. Sistema Solar, 31 Puerta A3 ; San Fernando de Henares ; Madrid; 28830; Espagne