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Revolution and the People in Russia and 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.

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Title of ebook: Revolution and the People in Russia and China
ISBN: 9780511401961
parent-ISBN: 9780521886376
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1907 kb
Published: 04-2008
Released online for download: 04-24-2008
Author of eBook: Smith,S. A.

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