Communist Histories

Volume 1

Edited by : Vijay Prashad

9788194475958

LeftWord Books 2016

Language: English

320 Pages

5.5 x 8.5 Inches

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Price INR 500.0 Price USD 25.0

About the Book

The contemporary world cannot be fully understood without the struggles of the Communists over the past century. Rooted in South Asia, Communist Histories has a global sweep, with essays examining Communist praxis from Bengal to Maharashtra, from Cuba to China. This volume – the first in a series – looks closely at the Communist international with an emphasis on how the core idea of internationalism impacted the campaigns of Communists. Deeply researched and richly written, these essays are a counterpoint to the erasure of Communist movements in bourgeois historiography.


Contents:–


VIJAY PRASHAD Introduction: Communist Histories


SUCHETANA CHATTOPADHYAY Being 'Naren Bhattacharji'


FREDRIK PETERSSON The 'Colonial Conference' and Dilemma of the Comintern's Colonial Work, 1928-29


MARGARET STEVENS Cuba and the Red International, 1934


ELISABETH ARMSTRONG Indian Peasant Women's Activism in a Hot Cold War


LIN CHUN The Lost International in the Transformation of Chinese Socialism


ARCHANA PRASAD The Warli Movement and its Living Histories

Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor at LeftWord Books, and chief correspondent for Globetrotter. He is the author of forty books, including Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Community, Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. The Darker Nations won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize. He lives in Santiago, Chile.

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