This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the earlytwentieth century. With previous research tending to confine revolutions within national borders, this book sets out to place them within a broader global sphere of thought and action. The authors explore the time phase between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Asturian Revolution of 1934, including cases from South Africa, Australia, China, the Middle East and Latin America. Providing insights from leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights the interconnectedness and transnationalism of upheavals and revolutions, offering a new approach which integrates political, social and cultural history.

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Autorentext

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK. Stefan co-edits, with Holger Nehring, Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements, and has published widely on comparative labour history, deindustrialisation studies, industrial heritage, the history of historiography and nationalism studies.

Klaus Weinhauer is Professor of Modern History at Bielefeld University, Germany. His research explores transnational and comparative history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a special focus on labour history, urban violence, security, d policing, and juvenile delinquency.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Three Decades of Global Revolution at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; Stefan Berger and Klaus Weinhauer.- 2. Leading the Workers, Leading the Peasants: The Russian Revolution, 1897-1921; Geoffrey Swain.- 3. Imagining, Scripting and Enacting Revolution in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Xinhai Revolution of 1911; Laura DiGiorgi.- 4. Frontiers of Revolution and Empire in the Middle East; Alp Yenen.- 5. Land and Freedom: Anarchists and Indians in the Crossfire of Colonial Expansion and Social Revolution in Latin America, 1848-1917; Olaf Kaltmeier and Léon Enrique Ávila Romero.- 6. Global versus National Revolutionaries: Italian Trajectories from the 'Great Migration' to the 'Fascist Revolution'; Marica Tolomelli.- 7. The German Revolution of 1918-1920; Stefan Berger and Klaus Weinhauer.- 8. The First Revolution of the Twentieth Century: Fears of Socialism and Anti-labour Mobilisation in Europe after the Russian Revolution of 1905; Romain Bonnet, Amerigo Caruso and Alessandro Saluppo.- 9. For People's Power: Revolutions in Finland, 1899-1932; Pertti Haapala.- 10. The Last Echo of 1917: The Asturian October between Revolution and Antifascism; Matthew Kerry.- 11. Vanguard to Laggard in a Revolutionary Age: Australian Labour, Democracy, Revolution and Reform; Liam Byrne and Sean Scalmer.- 12. The United States in an Era of Global Revolution; Shelton Stromquist.- 13. South African Revolutionaries: 1915-1922; Tom Lodge.