Monthly Archives: November 2022

The Legacy of the October Revolution (1917) in the Colonies of the World by Vijay Prashad

For more on this subject see Red Star Over the Third World, by Vijay Prashad Liberate the Colonies!: Communism and Colonial Freedom 1917-1924, edited by Vijay Prashad, John Riddell, Nazeef Mollah On December 24, 1917, just months after the October Revolution conducted by the Bolsheviks in the former Tsarist empire, the Bombay Chronicle wrote an editorial about that event.‘Our ideas of the Bolshevik organisation are very vague, . . . .’ wrote the anti-colonial nationalist editors.[...]