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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      24 April 2008
      ISBN:
      9781139167482
      9780521886376
      9780521713962
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139167482
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.55kg, 258 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 264 Pages
      • Series:
      The Wiles Lectures
      Subjects:
      History of Ideas, History, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Twentieth Century Regional History
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    Series:
    The Wiles Lectures
    Subjects:
    History of Ideas, History, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Twentieth Century Regional History
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    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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    '… pleasant for readers being interested in modern history … high quality of analysis of the industrial capitals of Russia and China.'

    Source: Labor History

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