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100 1 $aRodney, Walter,$eauthor.
245 14$aThe Russian revolution :$ba view from the third world /$cWalter Rodney ; edited and with an introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse J. Benjamin ; foreword by Vijay Prashad.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bVerso,$c2018.
300 $alxxiii, 258 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction. 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 ofStalinism.
520 $a"In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Wherever he was, Rodney wasa lightning rod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked Jamaica's Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generation how to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the thirty-eight-year-old Rodney was assassinated. Walter Rodney's Russian Revolution collects surviving texts from a series of lectures he delivered at the University of Dar es Salaam, an intellectual hub of the independent Third World. It had been his intention to work these into a book, a goal completed posthumously with the editorial aid of Robin D. G. Kelley and Jesse Benjamin. Moving across the historiography of the long Russian Revolution with clarity and insight, Rodney transcends the ideological fault lines of the Cold War. Surveying a broad range of subjects--the Narodniks, social democracy, the October Revolution, civil war, and the challenges of Stalinism--Rodney articulates a distinct viewpoint from the Third World, one that grounds revolutionary theory and history with the people in motion."--Provided by publisher.
600 10$aRodney, Walter,$xPolitical and social views.
651 0$aSoviet Union$xHistory$yRevolution, 1917-1921.
651 0$aSoviet Union$xHistory$yRevolution, 1917-1921$xHistoriography.
700 1 $aKelley, Robin D. G.,$ewriter of introduction.
700 1 $aBenjamin, Jesse J.,$ewriter of introduction.
700 1 $aPrashad, Vijay,$ewriter of foreword.