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One that you might like is The Russian Revolution, a view from the third world,

by Walter Rodney, edited by Jesse Benjamin and Robin D.G. Kelly, with a foreword by Vigé Parshad.

In his short life, Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the foremost

thinkers and activists of the anti-colonial

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 in 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 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. Kelly 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 Nirodinics, 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 fury and history with the people in motion.

The Russian Revolution, a view from the Third World by Walter Rodney, edited by Jesse Benjamin

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