Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International by Studer, Brigitte

Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781839768019)

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Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International by Studer, Brigitte

Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International

$39.95
Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International by Studer, Brigitte

Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International

$39.95
Format: Hardcover
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Hope, Struggle and Defeat: The Communist International and the Global Fight for Freedom

The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on 20th-century history. The book offers a new and fascinating account of this transnational organisation founded in 1919 by Lenin and Trotsky and dissolved by Stalin in 1943, telling the story through the eyes of the activists who became its "professional revolutionaries."

Studer follows such figures as Willi M?zenberg, Mikhail Borodin, M.N. Roy and Evelyn Trent, Tina Modotti, Agnes Smedley and many others less well-known as they are despatched to the successive political hotspots of the 1920s and '30s, from revolutionary Berlin to Baku, from Shanghai to Spain, from Nazi Germany to Stalin's Moscow. It traces their journeys from revolutionary hope to accommodation, defeat or death, looking at questions of motivation and commitment, agency and negotiation, of life and love, conflict and frustration. In doing so, it reveals a forgotten Comintern, the expression of a multi-dimensional revolutionary moment, which attracted not only working-class but feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-imperialist activists, highlighting the role of women in the Comintern and the centrality of anti-colonialism to the Communist project. The book concludes with a reflection on the ultimate demise of a historically unique undertaking.

Author: Brigitte Studer
ISBN-10: 1839768010
ISBN-13: 9781839768019
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2023
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/17/2023
By Brigitte Studer
By Brigitte Studer
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Brigitte Studer is a historian and professor emerita of contemporary history at the University of Bern. A specialist in gender history and social and political history, she has written extensively on political activism, international Communism and Stalinism, citizenship, welfare and employment protection as well as on female suffrage and women's movements. Her books have been published in English, German, French, Italian, Russian and Turkish. She has taught at the Universities of Geneva and Zurich and at Washington University (St.Louis, USA). She has also been a visiting professor at the EHESS in Paris and at the University of Strathclyde, and senior visiting fellow at the University of Vienna and at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research.

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