I am pleased to announce that the forthcoming collection that I have co-edited with Ian McKay is now available for pre-order. It is based on the workshop I had the honour of co-organizing at the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University in September 2017.
Coming out in Fall 2019 in the same year as the centenary of the founding of the Comintern, the collection brings together established and emerging scholars of the Comintern and individual communist parties. It will be a part of the Rethinking Canada in the World series, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Here is the content listing:
“Left Transnationalism? The Communist International, the National, Colonial and Racial Questions, and the Strengths and Limitations of the “Moscow Rules” Paradigm,” by Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay
PART ONE: Orientations
“‘Revolutionary Social Democracy’ and the Third International,” by Lars T. Lih
“The Russian Revolution, National Self-Determination, and Anti-Imperialism, 1917-27,” by S.A. Smith
“Origins of the Anti-Imperialism United Front: The Comintern and Asia, 1919-25,” by John Riddell
“Transnationality in the Soviet Challenge to British India, 1917-23,” by Alastair Kocho-Williams
PART TWO: TRANSNATIONAL PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
“Los poputchiki: Communist Fellow Travellers, Comintern Radical Networks, and the Forging of a Culture of Modernity in Latin America and the Caribbean,” by Sandra Pujals
“The Transnational Experience of Some Canadian Communists,” by Andrée Lévesque
“Between the Comintern, the Japanese Communist Party, and the Chinese Communist Party: Nosaka Sanzo’s Betrayal Games,” by Xiaofei Tu
PART THREE: RACE AND COLONIALISM
“Anti-Colonialism and the Imperial Dynamic in the Anglophone Communist Movements in South Africa, Australia, and Britain,” by Evan Smith
“Race, the Comintern, and Communist Parties in British Dominions, 1920-43,” by Oleksa Drachewych
“The Comintern and the Question of Race in the South American Andes,” by Marc Becker
“Various Forms of Chineseness in the Origins of Southeast Asian Communism,” by Kankan Xie
PART FOUR: NATIONAL QUESTIONS
“‘Young’ and ‘Adult’ Canadian Communists: The Question of Nationhood and Ethnicity in the 1920s,” by Daria Dyakonova
“‘It Is Better to Retreat Now Than Be Crushed Altogether’: Questions of Ethnicity and the Communist Party of Canada at the Lakehead,” by Michel S. Beaulieu
“Henri Gagnon, Tim Buck, Stanley Ryerson, and the Contested Legacy of the Comintern on the National Question: The Crisis of French-Canadian Communism in the 1940s,” by Ian McKay
“Nationalism and Internationalism in Chinese Communist Networks in the Americas,” by Anna Belogurova
“Conclusion: Future Avenues for the Study of the Comintern and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions,” by Oleksa Drachewych
You can find more information, or pre-order the book, by clicking the image of the book’s cover.
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