Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions 9780773559936
An exploration of the ways interwar communism sought to combat imperialism, support self-determination of nations, and p
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Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Sources
Introduction Left Transnationalism?
Part One Orientations
1 “Revolutionary Social Democracy” and the Third International
2 The Russian Revolution, National Self-Determination, and Anti-Imperialism, 1917–1927
3 Origins of the Anti-Imperialist United Front
4 Transnationality in the Soviet Challenge to British India, 1917–1923
Part Two Transnational Personal Relationships
5 Los poputchiki
6 The Transnational Experience of Some Canadian Communists
7 Between the Comintern, the Japanese Communist Party, and the Chinese Communist Party
Part Three Race and Colonialism
8 Anti-Colonialism and the Imperial Dynamic in the Anglophone Communist Movements in South Africa, Australia, and Britain
9 Race, the Comintern, and Communist Parties in British Dominions, 1920–1943
10 The Comintern and the Question of Race in the South American Andes
11 Various Forms of Chineseness in the Origins of Southeast Asian Communism
Part Four National Questions
12 “Young” and “Adult” Canadian Communists
13 “It Is Better to Retreat Now Than Be Crushed Altogether”
14 Henri Gagnon, Tim Buck, Stanley Ryerson, and the Contested Legacy of the Comintern on the National Question
15 Nationalism and Internationalism in Chinese Communist Networks in the Americas
Conclusion Future Avenues for the Study of the Comintern and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions
Contributors
Index
