Publisher's Synopsis
World Revolution 1917-1936, first published in 1937 and long out of print, was one of the few contemporary attempts to synthesize the experience of the revolutionary movement after the First World War. It is now available with a new introduction by the socialist scholar Al Richardson and also with the addition of an index.;A popular history of high quality, World Revolution 1917-1936 holds up well more than half a century after publication, demonstrating the breadth and depth that were to become a hallmark of James's work. Throughout this book C. L. R. James attests to the utter incompatibility of bureaucratic and authoritarian Stalinism with the revolutionary, democratic, scientific, and humanistic qualities of Marxism.
