In 1919, Bolshevik Russia and its followers formed the Communist
International, also known as the Comintern, to oversee the global
communist movement. From the very beginning, the Comintern
committed itself to ending world imperialism, supporting colonial
liberation, and promoting racial equality. Coinciding with the
centenary of the Comintern's founding, Left Transnationalism
highlights the different approaches interwar communists took in
responding to these issues. Bringing together leading and emerging
scholars on the Communist International, individual communist
parties, and national and colonial questions, this collection moves
beyond the hyperpoliticized scholarship of the Cold War era and
re-energizes the field. Contributors focus on transnational
diasporic and cultural networks, comparative studies of key debates
on race and anti-colonialism, the internationalizing impulse of the
movement, and the evolution of communist platforms through
transnational exchange. Essays further emphasize the involvement of
communist and socialist parties across Canada, Australia, India,
China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Latin America, South Africa, and
Europe. Highlighting the active discussions on nationality, race,
and imperialism that took place in Comintern circles, Left
Transnationalism demonstrates that this organization - as well as
communism in general - was, especially in the years before 1935,
far more heterogeneous, creative, and unpredictable than the rubber
stamp of the Soviet Union described in conventional historiography.
Contributors include Michel Beaulieu (Lakehead University), Marc
Becker (Truman State University), Anna Belogurova (Freie
Universitat Berlin), Oleksa Drachewych (University of Guelph),
Daria Dyakonova (Universite de Montreal), Alastair Kocho-Williams
(Clarkson University), Andree Levesque (McGill University), Lars T.
Lih (Independent Scholar), Ian McKay (McMaster University), Sandra
Pujals (University of Puerto Rico), John Riddell (Ontario Institute
of Studies in Education), Evan Smith (Flinders University), S.A.
Smith (All Souls College, Oxford), Xiaofei Tu (Appalachian State
University), and Kankan Xie (Peking University).
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