{"product_id":"revolutionary-vanguard-richard-cornell-9781442639393","title":"Revolutionary Vanguard: The Early Years of the Communist Youth International 1914-1924","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe monolithic nature of the communist movement during the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStalinist period overlay pluralist tendencies. These were suppressed in the 1920s, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethough they were to re-emerge after Stalin's death.\u003cp\u003eThe history of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCommunist Youth International is revealed in this volume as an important example of \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethe 'autonomist' tendencies in the communist movement after the First World \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWar. The experience of the CYI also demonstrates that differences between Leninist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand Stalinist eras were of degree, rather than of kind. Under Lenin, organizational \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eprinciples and practices were introduced that gave to the new communist movement a \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edistinct, authoritarian cast.\u003cp\u003eCornell considers the relevance, in the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edevelopment of radical movements among the young, of such qualities as untempered \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eidealism, a predisposition to embrace the most radical alternatives for social \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003echange, and a self-assertiveness or rebelliousness directed against traditional \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eadult teachings. He shows how these qualities were to lead, after the First World \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWar (and more recently), to conflicts between radical, ideologically orthodox youth \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eand more pragmatic adult party leaders. \u003cp\u003eIn introducing their new kind of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eradicalism, the young communists of Europe in 1919 considered themselves to be the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emost revolutionary element among revolutionaries - the highest form of \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'revolutionary vanguard.' Moscow did not agree.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Cornell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442639393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442639393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d","brand":"Richard Cornell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48449609400575,"sku":"9781442639393","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8b951a63-1708-4fc4-959a-3d1eb5186aaa.jpg?v=1777264146","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revolutionary-vanguard-richard-cornell-9781442639393","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}