Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World

Title: Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World Author: Rodney, Walter ISBN: 9781786635303 Publisher: Verso Published: 2018 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New Political Science 1623203 Publisher Description: A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy, woven together from lecture excerpts by the renowned Pan-African revolutionary socialist theorist In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightning rod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked Jamaica's Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generation how to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly after foundin