Revolution and the People in Russia and China - A Comparative History

Informationen zum Autor Steve Smith is Professor of History at the Department of History, University of Essex. His previous publications include Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895–1927 (2002), A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920–27 (2000) and Red Petrograd: A Revolution in the Factories, 1917–18 (1983). Klappentext A comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Zusammenfassung A unique account of how the experience of capitalist modernity changed the social identities of peasants who left their villages to settle in St Petersburg and Shanghai. Steve Smith explores how the changes in migrants' social identities contributed to the processes that culminated in Communist revolution in Russia and China. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Capitalist modernity and Communist revolution; 1. Memories of home: native-place identity in the city; 2. The awakening self: individuality and class identity; 3. After patriarchy: gender identities in the city; 4. Saving the nation: national and class identities in the city; 5. Workers and Communist revolution.

Product details

• Authors: S. A. Smith, S.A. Smith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521713962
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71396-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Wiles Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous