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Travellers of the world revolution : a global history of the Communist International
Reisende der Weltrevolution. English
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"The Communist International was the first organized attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on twentieth-century history. Acclaimed historian Brigitte Studer offers a n...
"The Communist International was the first organized attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a lasting mark on twentieth-century history. Acclaimed historian Brigitte Studer offers a new and fascinating account of this transnational organization founded in 1919 by Lenin and Trotsky and dissolved by Stalin in 1943, telling the story through the eyes of the activists who became its 'professional revolutionaries'"--
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- Creator
- Brigitte Studer ; translated by Dafydd Rees Roberts
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2023
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781839768019, 1839768010, 9781839768033, 9781839768033
- OCLC
- on1338131823
- "First published in German as Reisende der Weltrevolution © Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin 2020"--Title page verso.
- Translated from the German.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface -- Introduction -- Revolution and organization -- Local beginnings of a global project -- Revolution as an employment -- The global in the local -- Women, men and the revolutionary self -- Situated action -- Sources and structure -- Moscow 1920: Revolutionary rendezvous -- Through the Allied blockade to Soviet Russia -- Revolutionary enthusiasm and the experience of transnational solidarity -- The search for shared principles and a common language -- Revolutionaries of a new type? -- Baku and Tashkent: The revolution goes East -- The 'oppressed peoples of the East' -- Force of arms, force of propaganda: Exporting the revolution -- Modernity and tradition? -- Daily life in the early days of the comintern apparatus -- Berlin: Bridgehead in Europe and hub of transnational circulation -- Transfers of money and knowledge -- An early comintern agent and his team -- Interacting apparatuses -- An organ of party control in the West -- The working day on a foreign mission -- A rigorous system of coordination and supervision -- Berlin, cultural capital of international communism -- Cosmopolitan intellectuals -- Changing personnel policy -- Euphoria and sadness, integration and isolation -- Between ascesis and Bohemia -- A communist entrepreneur -- Avant-garde culture and prop-art -- Paris, Brussels, Berlin: Anti-imperialism and transcolonial networks -- Anticolonialism reaches the Metropole -- China: New epicentre of the world revolution -- Building global anticolonial solidarity -- From anticolonialism to anti-imperialism -- Mobilizing friends and sympathizers -- Coordination with the Eastern department -- 'Negro workers': The internationalization of the international -- Guangzhou and Wuhan: On missions for the Comintern in China -- Disunion and deadlock -- In the new capital -- Communicating the line -- Departure and the political consequences of the debacle -- Shanghai: The perilous life of the Comintern agent -- Rallying point for professional revolutionaries -- Smashing of the Comintern network -- Conspiracy as an occupation -- Sowing confusion -- Improvised cooperation between apparatuses -- A Communist enclave amid the foreign concessions -- Cities of refuge: Paris, Basel, Zurich, Moscow -- Paris: A disorganized effort to rebuild the apparatus -- Basel and Zurich: Precarious safety -- Moscow: Caught in the trap -- The last big mission: Barcelona, Madrid, Albacete, Valencia -- Advent of the Comintern representatives -- Solidarity with the Spanish Republic...and the revolution -- Recruitment and conveyance of volunteers -- Establishment of a military base in Albacete -- (Proto-)humanitarian aid -- Security and surveillance in Spain -- Fatigue and conflict among the comintern advisers -- Conclusion: A life with bags packed -- Conditions, duties, job requirements -- Personality types, career opportunities and cadre policy -- Violence and imprisonment -- Political commitment: Gains and losses -- Stalin and the transformation of the Comintern -- The dead on leave: The great massacre -- Aftermath -- A brief epilogue: The survivors