Revolutionary Studies

Author is willing to travel to cities around the US, in addition to speaking at the following planned events: - Budapest, May 15-16, 2017: “The Centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution(s): its Significance in World History” (International Conference on Russian and Soviet History) - Historical Materialism conferences (UK, Canada, US) - Left Forum 2017 (NYC) - Socialism 2017 (Chicago) Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Promotion via social media: Haymarket Books has 15,000 Facebook fans, and 10,000 Twitter followers, and 1,000 Instagram followers Pursuing blurbs from Gilbert Achcar, Ian Birchall, Paul Buhle, Neil Davidson, Mike Gonzales, Peter Hudis, Michael Löwy, Immanuel Ness, Bryan Palmer, Bill Pelz, John Riddell, Marcel van der Linden, and Michael Yates UK Will send review copies to and/or place interviews, extracts and articles in Revolutionary History, Critique, New Left Review, Historical Materialism, Counterfire, International Socialist Journal, Socialist Review, Weekly Worker, rs21, Capital & Class, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, Red Pepper. Launch event depending on author availability.

Explores relevance of Marxism to emancipatory politics through critical examination of core concepts and key twentieth-century revolutionary figures and movements.Revolutionary Studies explores the relevance of Marxism to emancipatory politics through a critical examination of core concepts and key twentieth-century revolutionary figures and movements. The first part of Revolutionary Studies explores definitions of the working class, social identities, democracy, capitalism, and socialism. The second applies these understandings to the Russian, Chinese, Nicaraguan, Indian, and South African revolutionary and post-revolutionary experiences. The third engages with the lives and the ideas of five important figures associated with Marxism.