In 1919, Bolshevik Russia and its followers formed the Communist International, also known as the Comintern, to oversee the global communist movement. From the very beginning, the Comintern committed itself to ending world imperialism, supporting colonial liberation, and promoting racial equality. Coinciding with the centenary of the Comintern's founding, Left Transnationalism highlights the different approaches interwar communists took in responding to these issues. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars on the Communist International, individual communist parties, and national and colonial questions, this collection moves beyond the hyperpoliticized scholarship of the Cold War era and re-energizes the field. Contributors focus on transnational diasporic and cultural networks, comparative studies of key debates on race and anti-colonialism, the internationalizing impulse of the movement, and the evolution of communist platforms through transnational exchange. Essays further emphasize the involvement of communist and socialist parties across Canada, Australia, India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Latin America, South Africa and Europe. Highlighting the active discussions on nationality, race, and imperialism that took place in Comintern circles, Left Transnationalism demonstrates that this organization--as well as communism in general--was, especially in the years before 1935, far more heterogeneous, creative and unpredictable than the rubber stamp of the Soviet Union described in conventional historiography.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 325/.32
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0773558721 9780773559936
- LCCN
- HX11.I5
- LCCN Item number
- L44 2019eb
- Modifying agency
- NLC
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (vii, 436 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240637 (OCoLC)1132424350 (CaOOCEL)458303
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 10
- Note on Transliteration and Sources 12
- Introduction Left Transnationalism? 16
- Part One Orientations 60
- 1 “Revolutionary Social Democracy” and the Third International 62
- 2 The Russian Revolution, National Self-Determination, and Anti-Imperialism, 1917–1927 86
- 3 Origins of the Anti-Imperialist United Front 112
- 4 Transnationality in the Soviet Challenge to British India, 1917–1923 138
- Part Two Transnational Personal Relationships 166
- 5 Los poputchiki 168
- 6 The Transnational Experience of Some Canadian Communists 196
- 7 Between the Comintern, the Japanese Communist Party, and the Chinese Communist Party 217
- Part Three Race and Colonialism 234
- 8 Anti-Colonialism and the Imperial Dynamic in the Anglophone Communist Movements in South Africa, Australia, and Britain 236
- 9 Race, the Comintern, and Communist Parties in British Dominions, 1920–1943 260
- 10 The Comintern and the Question of Race in the South American Andes 283
- 11 Various Forms of Chineseness in the Origins of Southeast Asian Communism 299
- Part Four National Questions 328
- 12 “Young” and “Adult” Canadian Communists 330
- 13 “It Is Better to Retreat Now Than Be Crushed Altogether” 350
- 14 Henri Gagnon, Tim Buck, Stanley Ryerson, and the Contested Legacy of the Comintern on the National Question 373
- 15 Nationalism and Internationalism in Chinese Communist Networks in the Americas 400
- Conclusion Future Avenues for the Study of the Comintern and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions 420
- Contributors 426
- Index 428
