“Justly celebrated as a towering, vivid, historically vital work.”—China MiévilleWhen the Russian autocracy fell in February 1917, workers across Petrograd took it as a signal to begin democratizing e
Military metaphors have long played a role in framing questions of Marxist political strategy. Most famously, Gramsci articulated much of his social theory in terms of wars of position and wars of man
In 1909, US courts set out to decide ?whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalized as a white person.” Turkish elites had already undertaken to portray the Turks as the historic source of Western ci
Precarity has become a buzzword in as well academia as among activists. This collection of essays examining precarity as both a condition of marginality and a basis for activism among urban migrants i
The 'Red International of Labour Unions' (RILU) was a central instrument for the spreading of international communism during the inter-war period. This comprehensive history, based on extensive resear
For generations in the West, Cold War animosity blocked dispassionate accounts of the Russian Revolution. This history authoritatively restores the upheaval's primary social actors—workers, soldiers,
