“For international revolution.” Demonstration near Smolny,
Petrograd, at time of Second Congress. (Humbert-Droz Archives) |
This
series brings together documents, reports, and speeches by
working-class political leaders who fought in the early decades of the
twentieth century to oppose imperialist war by organizing the working class and farmers to
overthrow their capitalist rulers.
The series begins with debates in the working class movement over
war, colonialism, and reform and revolution in the years leading up to
the First World War and the Russian revolution. Later volumes take up
the Russian revolution itself, the postwar revolutionary upsurge in
Germany, the first two congresses of the Communist International, and
the Congress of the Peoples of the East, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in
1920.
Much of the material appears in print in English for the first time.
Each volume includes photos, annotation, a glossary, a chronology, and
an index.
“This is the definitive version. Should be in all academic
libraries.”—Choice
“Brings together an excellent choice of important and revealing
documents.… The entire series will be important resources for any library of twentieth-century
history.”—Robert V. Daniels, editor, A Documentary History of Communism
Titles in the series:
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