Featherstone / Unknown / Høgsbjerg The Red and the Black

The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4431-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Racism, Resistance and Social Change

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 various black radical traditions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Featherstone, David

Høgsbjerg, Christian

Hogsbjerg, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Red October and the Black Atlantic – David Featherstone and Christian Høgsbjerg

Part I Racism, resistance and revolution
1 Claude McKay’s Bolshevization in London – Winston James
2 From Russian colonies to Black America … and back: Lenin and Langston Hughes – Matthieu Renault
3 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 Atlantic
4 Bolshevism and African American agency in the African American Radical Press, 1917-24 – Cathy Bergin
5 International Communist trade union organisations and the call to black toilers in the interwar Atlantic world – Holger Weiss
6 Firebrands, trade unionists and Marxists: the shadow of the Russian Revolution, the colonial state and radicalism in Guyana, 1917-57– Nigel Westmaas
7 Racialising the Caribbean Basin: the Communist racial agenda for the American hemisphere, 1931-35– Sandra Pujals
8 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 War
9 The beginning of the Cold War in the Gold Coast? – Marika Sherwood
10 Decolonisation and the Cold War: African student elites in the USSR, 1955-64 – Harold D. Weaver
11 ‘Peoples' Friendship’ in the Cold War: the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University – Rachel Rubin
Afterword: A Black journey of Red hope – Maxim Matusevich

Über Autor(innen)

David Featherstone is a Reader in Human Geography in the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow

Christian Høgsbjerg is a Senior Lecturer in Critical History and Politics in the School of Humanities at the University of Brighton