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The Global Revolution: A History of International Communism, by Silvio Pons

By Silvio Pons

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The international Revolution. A background of foreign Communism 1917-1991 establishes a courting among the historical past of communism and the most tactics of globalization long ago century. Drawing on a wealth of archival assets, Silvio Pons analyses the multifaceted and contradictory courting among the Soviet Union and the foreign communist circulate, to teach how communism performed a tremendous half within the formation of our glossy world.

The quantity offers the argument that in the age of wars from 1914 to 1945, the institution of the Soviet nation in Russia and the start of the communist flow had an immense influence as a result of their promise of global revolution and foreign civil struggle. Such standpoint seemed much more believable within the aftermath of the second one global warfare and of revolution in China, which lead the way for the growth of communism within the post-colonial international. Communism challenged the West within the chilly conflict - via anti-capitalist modernization and anti-imperialist mobilization - displaying itself to be a strong consider the politicization of worldwide developments. even if, the foreign legitimacy of communism declined speedily within the post-war period. Soviet energy uncovered its lack of ability to workout hegemony, as specific from domination. the implications of Sovietization in Europe and the holiday among the Soviet Union and China have been the first purposes for the decline of communist impact and allure. for the reason that communism misplaced its political credibility and cultural unity, its worldwide venture had failed. the floor used to be ready for the devastating influence of Western globalization on communist regimes in Europe and the Soviet Union.

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But the decisive moment was coming. Even if the defeat of Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany would for the moment mean only a victory for French and British imperialism, Radek predicted that ‘the German revolution would develop rapidly’. After a year’s existence, Soviet Russia finally found itself ‘at the start of the European revolution’. 7 In other words, the fall of the German empire did not open the way to peace, but to civil war in Europe. This hope was shared by all Bolsheviks. The first convulsions in postwar Germany appeared to meet their expectations.

46 Victory in the Civil War, the strength of the Red Army, and the birth of the communist movement now provided greater confidence in the ability of Soviet power to survive and even play an international role. But these factors did not in any way justify the idea that it could threaten to attack the settlement put in place by Versailles. The end of the Polish–Soviet War quite possibly led to the stabilization of Central and Eastern Europe. It was up to Radek to sound the note of realism which was lacking in Lenin’s speech.

28 R. K. Debo, Survival and Consolidation: The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, 1918–1921 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992), 117. 29 R.  Tökés, Béla Kun and the Hungarian Soviet Republic: The Origins and Role of the Communist Party of Hungary in the Revolution of 1918–1919 (New York: Praeger, 1967). 30 Graziosi, L’URSS di Lenin e di Stalin, 129–30. 18 The Global Revolution imperialism, and not simply against the White armies. The significance and the vision of the original project were still there, in spite of the repression of the first attempts at revolution in Central and Eastern Europe.

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