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Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History (The Wiles Lectures)

By S. A. Smith

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
9780511396700, 9780521886376, 0521886376, 052171396X, 9780521713962
LCC
HX311.5 .S63 2008
Open Library ID
OL10437116M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2274782 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
258\258
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История

Description

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.

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