The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World - Tapa blanda

Rodney, Walter

 
9781786635303: The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World
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ISBN 10: 1786635305 ISBN 13: 9781786635303
Editorial: Verso Books, 2018

Sinopsis

Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney Foundation

Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley

Afterword by Vijay Prashad

In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading revolutionary thinkers of the Black Sixties. He became a leading force of dissent throughout the Caribbean and a lightning rod of controversy. The 1968 Rodney Riots erupted in Jamaica when he was prevented from returning to his teaching post at the University of the West Indies. In 1980, Rodney was assassinated in Guyana, reportedly at the behest of the government.

In the mid-'70s, Rodney taught a course on the Russian Revolution at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. A Pan-Africanist and Marxist, Rodney sought to make sense of the reverberations of the October Revolution in a decolonising world marked by Third World revolutionary movements. He intended to publish a book based on his research and teaching. Now historians Jesse Benjamin, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Vijay Prashad have edited Rodney's polished chapters and unfinished lecture notes, presenting the book that Rodney had hoped to publish in his lifetime.

1917 is a signal event in radical publishing, and will inaugurate Verso's standard edition of Walter Rodney's works.

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In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed twentieth-century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney was assassinated.

Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Professor of South Asian History at Trinity College, Connecticut. He is the author of a number of books, including The Darker Nations: a People's History of the Third World and Arab Spring, Libyan Winter.

Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of South California.

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Editorial
Verso Books
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1786635305
ISBN 13 
9781786635303
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Número de páginas
336
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