The Russian Revolution - A View From The Third World

A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution and
its post-colonial legacy, woven together from lecture excerpts by the
renowned Pan-African revolutionary socialist theorist In his short life,
Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkers
and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North
America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightning
rod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparked
Jamaica’s Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generation
how to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly after
founding the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney
was assassinated. Walter Rodney’s The Russian Revolution collects surviving
texts from a series of lectures he delivered at the University of Dar es
Salaam, an intellectual hub of the independent Third World. It had been his
intention to work these into a book, a goal completed posthumously with the
editorial aid of Robin D.G. Kelley and Jesse Benjamin. Moving across the
historiography of the long Russian Revolution with clarity and insight,
Rodney transcends the ideological fault lines of the Cold War. Surveying a
broad range of subjects—the Narodniks, social democracy, the October
Revolution, civil war, and the challenges of Stalinism—Rodney articulates a
distinct viewpoint from the Third World, one that grounds revolutionary
theory and history with the people in motion.