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 unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of peasants who settled in St Petersburg from the 1880s to 1917 and in Shanghai from the 1900s to the 1940s. Russia and China, though very different societies, were both dynastic empires with backward agrarian economies that suddenly experienced the impact of capitalist modernity. This book argues that far more happened to these migrants than simply being transformed from peasants into workers. It explores the migrants' identification with their native homes; how they acquired new understandings of themselves as individuals and new gender and national identities. It asks how these identity transformations fed into the wider political, social and cultural processes that culminated in the revolutionary crises in Russia and China, and how the Communist regimes that emerged viewed these transformations in the working classes they claimed to represent. 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....

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: S A Smith, S. A. Smith, S. A. (University of Essex) Smith, S.A. Smith
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521886376
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88637-6
• Pagine: 258
• Serie: Wiles Lectures; The Wiles Lectures
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; China, Russia, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Asian History, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions