The Russian Revolution - A View From The Third World

A never-before published history of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution andits post-colonial legacy, woven together from lecture excerpts by therenowned Pan-African revolutionary socialist theorist In his short life,Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost thinkersand activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in NorthAmerica, Africa, and the Caribbean. Wherever he was, Rodney was a lightningrod for working-class Black Power organizing. His deportation sparkedJamaica’s Rodney Riots in 1968, and his scholarship trained a generationhow to approach politics on an international scale. In 1980, shortly afterfounding the Working People’s Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodneywas assassinated. Walter Rodney’s The Russian Revolution collects survivingtexts from a series of lectures he delivered at the University of Dar esSalaam, an intellectual hub of the independent Third World. It had been hisintention to work these into a book, a goal completed po