1786635305 
Hardback The Russian revolution : a view from the third world / Walter Rodney ; edited and with an introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse J. Benjamin ; foreword by Vijay Prashad.
Publication year: 2018
Format: Hardback
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781786635303
Notes:
Formerly CIP.
The renowned Pan-Africanist and socialist analyses the Russian Revolution Preface by Jesse Benjamin and the Walter Rodney FoundationIntroduction by Robin D.G. KelleyAfterword by Vijay PrashadIn 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 te
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lxxiii, 258 pages ; 21 cm
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