The Movement of World Revolution

The Movement of World Revolution
Author: Christopher Dawson
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813220076

The Movement of World Revolution, originally published in 1959, explores many of the themes Dawson considered most important in his lifetime: the religious foundation of human culture, the central importance of education for the recovery of Christian humanism, the myth of progress, and the dangers of nationalism and secular ideologies.

Revolutionary World

Revolutionary World
Author: David Motadel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107198402

The first truly global history of revolutions and revolutionary waves in the modern age, from Atlantic Revolutions to Arab Spring.

Vanguard of the Revolution

Vanguard of the Revolution
Author: A. James McAdams
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691196427

The first comprehensive political history of the communist party Vanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. A. James McAdams argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. He shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba, and North Korea adapted the original ideas of revolutionaries like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin to profoundly different social and cultural settings. Vanguard of the Revolution is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand world communism and the captivating idea that gave it life.

Change the World Without Taking Power

Change the World Without Taking Power
Author: John Holloway
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2002-03-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Offers a radical rethinking of Marx's concept of revolution that shows how we can bring about social and political change today.

World Revolution, 1917–1936

World Revolution, 1917–1936
Author: C. L. R. James
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822373343

Originally published in 1937, C. L. R. James's World Revolution is a pioneering Marxist analysis of the history of revolutions during the interwar period and of the fundamental conflict between Trotsky and Stalin. James, who was a leading Trotskyist activist in Britain, outlines Russia's transition from Communist revolution to a Stalinist totalitarian state bureaucracy. He also provides an account of the ideological contestations within the Communist International while examining its influence on the development of the Soviet Union and its changing role in revolutions in Spain, China, Germany, and Central Europe. Published to commemorate the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this definitive edition of World Revolution features a new introduction by Christian Høgsbjerg and includes rare archival material, selected contemporary reviews, and extracts from James's 1939 interview with Trotsky.

The Protocols and World Revolution

The Protocols and World Revolution
Author: Sergiei Nilus
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Protocols is a nonfiction novel that uses evidence from the US Senate Overman Committee and various other articles and essays to demonstrate that the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was in truth led by apostate Jews. Neilus represents the Bolshevik Revolution in an entirely new light.

The Global Revolution

The Global Revolution
Author: Silvio Pons
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191015024

The Global Revolution. A History of International Communism 1917-1991 establishes a relationship between the history of communism and the main processes of globalization in the past century. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, Silvio Pons analyses the multifaceted and contradictory relationship between the Soviet Union and the international communist movement, to show how communism played a major part in the formation of our modern world. The volume presents the argument that during the age of wars from 1914 to 1945, the establishment of the Soviet state in Russia and the birth of the communist movement had an enormous impact because of their promise of world revolution and international civil war. Such perspective appeared even more plausible in the aftermath of the Second World War and of revolution in China, which paved the way for the expansion of communism in the post-colonial world. Communism challenged the West in the Cold War - by means of anti-capitalist modernization and anti-imperialist mobilization - showing itself to be a powerful factor in the politicization of global trends. However, the international legitimacy of communism declined rapidly in the post-war era. Soviet power exposed its inability to exercise hegemony, as distinct from domination. The consequences of Sovietization in Europe and the break between the Soviet Union and China were the primary reasons for the decline of communist influence and appeal. Since communism lost its political credibility and cultural cohesion, its global project had failed. The ground was prepared for the devastating impact of Western globalization on communist regimes in Europe and the Soviet Union.

Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions

Mae Mallory, the Monroe Defense Committee, and World Revolutions
Author: Paula Marie Seniors
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2024-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820366439

This book explores the significant contributions of African American women radical activists from 1955 to 1995. It examines the 1961 case of African American working-class self-defense advocate Mae Mallory, who traveled from New York to Monroe, North Carolina, to provide support and weapons to the Negroes with Guns Movement. Accused of kidnapping a Ku Klux Klan couple, she spent thirteen months in a Cleveland jail, facing extradition. African American women radical activists Ethel Azalea Johnson of Negroes with Guns, Audrey Proctor Seniors of the banned New Orleans NAACP, the Trotskyist Workers World Party, Ruthie Stone, and Clarence Henry Seniors of Workers World founded the Monroe Defense Committee to support Mallory. Mae’s daughter, Pat, aged sixteen also participated, and they all bonded as family. When the case ended, they joined the Tanzanian, Grenadian, and Nicaraguan World Revolutions. Using her unique vantage point as Audrey Proctor Seniors’s daughter, Paula Marie Seniors blends personal accounts with theoretical frameworks of organic intellectual, community feminism, and several other theoretical frameworks in analyzing African American radical women’s activism in this era. Essential biographical and character narratives are combined with an analysis of the social and political movements of the era and their historical significance. Seniors examines the link between Mallory, Johnson, and Proctor Seniors’s radical activism and their connections to national and international leftist human rights movements and organizations. She asks the underlying question: Why did these women choose radical activism and align themselves with revolutionary governments, linking Black human rights to world revolutions? Seniors’s historical and personal account of the era aims to recover Black women radical activists’ place in history. Her innovative research and compelling storytelling broaden our knowledge of these activists and their political movements.