Rethinking Revolutions from 1905 to 1934: Democracy, Social Justice and National Liberation Around the World

This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many socio-political upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the early-twentieth century. With previous research tending to confine revolutions within national borders, this book sets out to reconsider these turning points in history by placing them within a broader global sphere of thought and action. The authors explore the culmination of political turbulence on a global scale, including examples from South Africa, Australia, China, the Middle East and Latin America, and seek to answer questions about the beginnings and endings of uprisings and protest periods. Were political hopes and fears across Europe related to a proletarian revolution rooted in the nineteenth century, or did the period of unrest from 1905 to 1934 lead to the beginning of the global Cold War and the anti-colonial struggles of the late-twentieth century? They also discuss the extent to which revolutions faced competition from other social culturally and politically diverse social movements. Providing insights from leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights the interconnectedness and transnationalism of social, political and intellectual revolts during the twentieth century, offering news insight through the combination of political social and cultural historical approaches.