Red and the Black - The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic

This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and various black radical traditions.

About the author

David Featherstone is a Reader in Human Geography in the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow

Christian Høgsbjerg is a Senior Lecturer in Critical History and Politics in the School of Humanities at the University of Brighton

Summary

This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and various black radical traditions. -- .

Product details

• Authors: David Hgsbjerg Featherstone, David Hogsbjerg Featherstone
• Assisted by: David Featherstone (Editor), Christian Hogsbjerg (Editor), Christian Høgsbjerg (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781526144300
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4430-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Racism, Resistance and Social Change; Racism, Resistance and Social
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous