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Book Synopsis
This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the earlytwentieth century. With previous research tending to confine revolutions within national borders, this book sets out to place them within a broader global sphere of thought and action. The authors explore the time phase between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Asturian Revolution of 1934, including cases from South Africa, Australia, China, the Middle East and Latin America. Providing insights from leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights the interconnectedness and transnationalism of upheavals and revolutions, offering a new approach which integrates political, social and cultural history.
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Table of Contents1. Introduction: Three Decades of Global Revolution at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; Stefan Berger and Klaus Weinhauer.-
Part I. Revolutions around the World.- 2. Leading the Workers, Leading the Peasants: The Russian Revolution, 1897-1921; Geoffrey Swain.- 3. Imagining, Scripting and Enacting Revolution in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Xinhai Revolution of 1911; Laura De Giorgi.- 4. Frontiers of Revolution and Empire in the Middle East; Alp Yenen.- 5. Land and Freedom: Anarchists and Indians in the Crossfire of Colonial Expansion and Social Revolution in Latin America, 1848-1917; Olaf Kaltmeier and Léon Enrique Ávila Romero.-
Part II. Revolutions, Revolutionaries and Counter Mobilisation in Europe.- 6. Global versus National Revolutionaries: Italian Trajectories from the ‘Great Migration’ to the ‘Fascist Revolution'; Marica Tolomelli.- 7. The German Revolution of 1918-1920; Stefan Berger and Klaus Weinhauer.- 8. The First Revolution of the Twentieth Century: Fears of Socialism and Anti-labour Mobilisation in Europe after the Russian Revolution of 1905; Romain Bonnet, Amerigo Caruso and Alessandro Saluppo.- 9. For People’s Power: Revolutions in Finland, 1899-1932; Pertti Haapala.- 10. The Last Echo of 1917: The Asturian October between Revolution and Antifascism; Matthew Kerry.-
Part III. Revolutionaries between Repression and Reform.- 11. Vanguard to Laggard in a Revolutionary Age: Australian Labour, Democracy, Revolution and Reform; Liam Byrne and Sean Scalmer.- 12. The United States in an Era of Global Revolution; Shelton Stromquist.- 13. South African Revolutionaries: 1915-1922; Tom Lodge.
