Revolution and the people in Russia and China : a comparative history / S.A. Smith

Englisch

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Print version: ISBN 9780521886376

978-1-139-16748-2 : ebook

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-521-88637-6 (Druckausgabe) : hardback, 978-0-521-71396-2 (andere physische Form) : paperback

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139167482

*China / Russland / Kommunismus / Revolution / Ursache

*Communism -- China -- History ; Communism -- Russia -- History

*Communism ; Russia ; History ; Communism ; China ; History

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: HX311.5

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 947/.210841

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: NQ 5070: N Geschichte / NQ Geschichte seit 1918 / Februarrevolution (1917), Oktoberrevolution (1917), Bürgerkrieg (1917-1921)

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: NQ 5760: N Geschichte / NQ Geschichte seit 1918 / China - Darstellungen zum Zeitraum 1912-1949 (Republik China)

A unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of peasants who settled in St Petersburg from the 1880s to 1917 and in Shanghai from the 1900s to the 1940s. Russia and China, though very different societies, were both dynastic empires with backward agrarian economies that suddenly experienced the impact of capitalist modernity. This book argues that far more happened to these migrants than simply being transformed from peasants into workers. It explores the migrants' identification with their native homes; how they acquired new understandings of themselves as individuals and new gender and national identities. It asks how these identity transformations fed into the wider political, social and cultural processes that culminated in the revolutionary crises in Russia and China, and how the Communist regimes that emerged viewed these transformations in the working classes they claimed to represent

Introduction : capitalist modernity and communist revolution -- Memories of home : native-place identity in the city -- The awakening self : individuality and class consciousness -- After patriarchy : gender identities in the city -- Saving the nation : national and class identities in the city -- Workers and communist revolution

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